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1 online resource (xi, 126 pages) : illustrations |
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Palgrave pivot |
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Palgrave pivot
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Jamaica to the World -- The 'One Love Moment' -- The Problem and the Solution -- The Nomination Document -- The 'One Love' Whitewash -- The Silencing of Language -- Language -- The Premise -- References -- Chapter 2: Once Upon an Island ... -- The Journey -- The Bitter Taste of Sugar -- Making Bitter-Sweet Languages -- Of Routes and Roots: When, Where and How? -- Searching for the Original Language Community -- Providence Island: In the Beginning -- Language Journeys -- Travelling the Barbados Route -- The Routes Travelled |
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The Roots That Travelled -- Once upon an Island: Race Was Invented -- And So Too Was 'Language' -- A Community Was Made (Reconstructing the Proto-Language Community) -- And Their Words Told Their Story -- The Global Jamaican Is Born and International Black Identity Constructed -- Going Global/Tu di Worl ... -- ... on Wings of Sweet Song -- References -- Chapter 3: The Languages in Conflict -- Only One Side Shoots in This Language War -- In the Beginning ... a Portrait in Black, White and Brown -- What the 'Chateratti' Are Saying -- Introducing the 'Chateratti' |
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The Language Opinions of the 'Chateratti' -- Wa di Masiv a Se (What the Majority Are Saying) -- Introducing the 'Massiv' -- What and How the 'Masiv' Think They Speak -- How the 'Masiv' Actually Speak -- How Did the Language Situation Come to Be? -- The Price of Language and Gender -- The News Media and the Massiv -- References -- Chapter 4: Through Children's Eyes: Where Nation, State, Race, Colour and Language Meet -- Race and the Jamaican Nation(s): 'Out of Many' or '92% Black' or ...? -- Language and the Jamaican Nation(s) |
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Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings: The People's Construct of the Jamaican Nation -- Who Is a 'Beautiful' Jamaican Versus 'Average' Jamaican? -- Adolescent Stereotypes -- Who Can Be Jamaican? Child Versus Traditional Stereotypes -- What Does a Jamaican Look Like: Twelve-Year-Olds -- Young Children and Stereotypes -- Who Looks Like Me, Who Speaks What and Who Speaks Like Me? -- Who Looks Like Me? -- Who Speaks What Language? -- Who Speaks Like Me -- The Children's Composite Stereotype of the Jamaican -- Race, Colour, Socio-economic and Linguistic Stereotyping |
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Through Foreign Eyes and Ears: Stereotypes of the Jamaican Nation -- Through Local Eyes and Mouths: Stereotypes of the Jamaican Nation -- The Nation Represented in the Cinematic National Anthem -- References -- Chapter 5: Jamaica Here, Jamaica Everywhere -- Small but Strong: 'Likl Bot Talawa' -- Exodus: Movement of Jamaican People -- 'Let My People Go (... at a Price)' -- The Former Enslavers: Taking Compensation Money and Running -- The Former Enslaved: Taking Labour and Running -- Race, Global Capitalism, and Being Here and Everywhere -- References -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"Devonish and Carpenter lay out a compelling account of the formation and spread of Jamaican language and culture. Synthesising the latest scholarship on race with well-established principles of language change and diffusion, they present a satisfying answer to the question of how Jamaican Creole has achieved popularity everywhere but at home, and the consequences thereof. This work will be of interest for years to come to all scholars of Caribbean culture and society."--Jason F. Siegel, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds. The authors trace the history of how a nation of less than three million people has come to be at the centre of cultural, racial and linguistic influence globally; producing a culture than has transformed the way that the world listens to music, and a dialect that has formed the lingua franca for a generation of young people. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Caribbean linguistics, Africana studies, diaspora studies, sociology of language and sociolinguistics more broadly. Hubert Devonish is Professor Emeritus in the Jamaican Language Unit at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is the author of Language and Liberation: Creole Language Politics in the Caribbean (1986), Talking in Tones: A Study of Tone in Afro-European Creole Languages (1989) and Talking Rhythm, Stressing Tone: Prominence in Anglo-West African Creole Languages (2002). Karen Carpenter is Acting Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies at Mona and Director of the Caribbean Sexuality Research Group in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the editor of Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality in the Caribbean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and author of Questioning Jew ish Caribbean Identity (2018) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed August 30, 2021) |
| Subject |
English language -- Social aspects -- Jamaica
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English language -- Dialects -- Jamaica
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Bilingualism & multilingualism.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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Economics.
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Child & developmental psychology.
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Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General.
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Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Literary Criticism -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Business & Economics -- Economics -- General.
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Psychology -- Developmental -- General.
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Civilization
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English language -- Dialects
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English language -- Social aspects
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International relations
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Jamaica -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004172
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Jamaica -- Relations
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| Subject |
Jamaica
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carpenter, Karen, author
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| ISBN |
9783030457488 |
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3030457486 |
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