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Language attitudes and linguistic awareness in Jamaican English

  • Andrea Sand
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Variation in the Caribbean
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Abstract

This paper presents results from a pilot study testing the acceptability of a number of lexical and morphosyntactic features which have been identified in previous corpus-based analyses as more frequent in educated Jamaican English usage than in other standard varieties of English. The results from the questionnaire survey show that there are considerable differences between individual items on the questionnaire, with regard to their acceptability in writing as well as their regional background. Such differences merit further investigation and must be taken into account in the codification of a standard Jamaican English.

Abstract

This paper presents results from a pilot study testing the acceptability of a number of lexical and morphosyntactic features which have been identified in previous corpus-based analyses as more frequent in educated Jamaican English usage than in other standard varieties of English. The results from the questionnaire survey show that there are considerable differences between individual items on the questionnaire, with regard to their acceptability in writing as well as their regional background. Such differences merit further investigation and must be taken into account in the codification of a standard Jamaican English.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Variation and linguistic systems
  5. Revisiting variation between sa and o in Sranan 13
  6. Inherent variability and coexistent systems 39
  7. Putting individuals back in contact 57
  8. Relative markers in spoken Standard Jamaican English 79
  9. Part II. Variation and identity
  10. “Flying at half-mast”? Voices, genres, and orthographies in Barbadian Creole* 107
  11. The creole continuum and individual agency 133
  12. Language attitudes and linguistic awareness in Jamaican English 163
  13. Part III. Variation and the community
  14. The varilingual repertoire of Tobagonian speakers 191
  15. On the emergence of new language varieties 207
  16. ‘Creole’ and youth language in a British inner-city community 231
  17. Le Page’s theoretical and applied legacy in sociolinguistics and creole studies 251
  18. Name index 273
  19. Subject index 275
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.37.10san

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Variation and linguistic systems
  5. Revisiting variation between sa and o in Sranan 13
  6. Inherent variability and coexistent systems 39
  7. Putting individuals back in contact 57
  8. Relative markers in spoken Standard Jamaican English 79
  9. Part II. Variation and identity
  10. “Flying at half-mast”? Voices, genres, and orthographies in Barbadian Creole* 107
  11. The creole continuum and individual agency 133
  12. Language attitudes and linguistic awareness in Jamaican English 163
  13. Part III. Variation and the community
  14. The varilingual repertoire of Tobagonian speakers 191
  15. On the emergence of new language varieties 207
  16. ‘Creole’ and youth language in a British inner-city community 231
  17. Le Page’s theoretical and applied legacy in sociolinguistics and creole studies 251
  18. Name index 273
  19. Subject index 275
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