Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis
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Cándida González-López
Abstract
The tendencies toward decontextualization, mono-causal scenarios, and the erasure of the agency of marginalized peoples that have been identified and criticized in the preceding chapters are more often than not due more to the outmoded paradigm of science within which most linguists and other social scientists still do their work, rather than being due to any lack of intelligence, preparation, honesty, or social conscience on the part of creolists. In this chapter we make a preliminary case for moving beyond the ‘Cartesian Linguistics’ model which still dominates our field toward new ways of looking at languages and accounting for the complex behaviors of their speakers.
Abstract
The tendencies toward decontextualization, mono-causal scenarios, and the erasure of the agency of marginalized peoples that have been identified and criticized in the preceding chapters are more often than not due more to the outmoded paradigm of science within which most linguists and other social scientists still do their work, rather than being due to any lack of intelligence, preparation, honesty, or social conscience on the part of creolists. In this chapter we make a preliminary case for moving beyond the ‘Cartesian Linguistics’ model which still dominates our field toward new ways of looking at languages and accounting for the complex behaviors of their speakers.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations xi
- Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 1
- African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 41
- Women and colonial era creolization 55
- Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles 81
- Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles 111
- Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific 149
- Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French 185
- Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis 215
- References 225
- Index 239
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations xi
- Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 1
- African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 41
- Women and colonial era creolization 55
- Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles 81
- Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles 111
- Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific 149
- Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French 185
- Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis 215
- References 225
- Index 239
