Jamaican Creole Goes Web : Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad' PDF
by Moll Andrea Moll
Part of the Creole Language Library series
Description
Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe.
Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by 'crossers'.
Taking sociolinguistic globalisation yet a step further, this monograph investigates the use of Jamaican Creole in a web discussion forum by combining quantitative and qualitative methodology in a sociolinguistic 'third wave' approach.
In the absence of standardised orthography, one of the central aims of this study is to document the sociolinguistic styling and grassroots (anti-) standardisation of spelling norms for Jamaican Creole in the web forum as a virtual community of practice.
An analysis of individual repertoire portraits demonstrates that conventionalised spelling variants co-occur with basilectal Jamaican Creole morphosyntax in 'Cyber-Jamaican' as the digital ethnolinguistic repertoire of the discussion forum.
The enregisterment of this ethnolinguistic repertoire is closely tied to staged performance, which establishes the link between 'Cyber-Jamaican' and the negotiation of sociolinguistic identity and authenticity via stance-taking.
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- Pages:302 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:15/07/2015
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- ISBN:9789027268419
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-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:302 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:15/07/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027268419