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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:34:34
From: Els van Egmond [egmonde at brill.com]
Subject: The Survival of People and Languages: Maher

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Title: The Survival of People and Languages 
Subtitle: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies 
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture.  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/survival-people-and-languages-schooners-goats-and-cassava-st-barthelemy-french-west-indies 


Author: Julianne Maher

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004183261 Pages: 258 Price: Europe EURO 109
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004183261 Pages: 258 Price: U.S. $ 141


Abstract:

In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St.
Barthelemy, French West Indies, Julianne Maher explains a rare linguistic
anomaly, how a small homogeneous population of seventeenth century French
settlers in the tiny island of St. Barth came to speak four separate
languages. With a range of historical documents and eighteenth century
eye-witness accounts, Maher reconstructs the island's social ecology that led
to its fragmentation. The four speech varieties are closely examined and
analyzed, using extensive native speaker interviews; with the impending demise
of these languages such documentation is unique. Maher concludes that social
factors such as poverty, economics, geography and small population size served
to maintain linguistic barriers on the island for over two hundred fifty
years.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)


Written In: English  (eng)

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