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[Joseph Farquharson]

Hi,

I am a Jamaican student studying 15th-17th century Spanish literature at the University of Camridge, and torn between two loves (linguistics and literature).

My primary interest in linguistics lies in the field of Creolistics/Creole linguistics, but I am becoming extremely awareof fresh new areas in what literature calls culture studies, and there is a scarcity of discourse studies in this area. I might focus on Jamaican dancehall music which has received a lot of heat in Jamaica, but is receiving a lot of acclaim and critical attention outside.

My research will take me into the interface between discourse, pragmatics, syntax, phonology, and morphology, and a comparative/contrastive look at the language of the music vs. the Creole language in Jamaica.


Joseph T. Farquharson, BA Hon. (UWI)
Graduate Student
Sidney Sussex College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 3HU
United Kingdom
jtf25 at cam.ac.uk



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