Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword to the First Edition xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Dread Talk - The Speech of the Rastafari in Jamaica1 3
6. The Social History of Dread Talk 18
7. Rastafarian Language in St Lucia and Barbados 53
8. Dread Talk - The Speech of Rastafari in Modern Jamaican Poetry 69
9. The Lexicon of Dread Talk in Standard Jamaican English 86
10. Globalization and the Language of Rastafari 96
11. The Road of the Dread 109
12. Bibliography 111