29.96, Books: The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Textual Heritage: Philological Perspectives on Authenticity and Audience Design: Rossem

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:25:47
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Textual Heritage: Philological Perspectives on Authenticity and Audience Design: Rossem

Title: The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Textual Heritage: Philological
Perspectives on Authenticity and Audience Design 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-virgin-islands-dutch-creole-textual-heritage-philological-perspectives-on-authenticity-and-audience-design 

Author: Cefas van Rossem

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932618 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

Creoles are new languages: we know when they emerged. Documentary sources of
their early stages are therefore crucial for finding out how they emerged.
However, the authenticity of these sources should be looked at critically.

Virgin Islands Dutch Creole did not exist before 1672 and was mentioned for
the first time in 1736. In the following decades Moravian and Lutheran
missionaries started a tradition of translating Christian texts into this new
language of the Danish Antilles (US Virgin Islands). On the surface of it,
these texts look bookish, influenced by missionary jargon, Dutch-like, and
perhaps even artificial.

This dissertation studies the authenticity of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole
texts from a philological perspective. First, it focuses on early influence of
the first colonists, on the appearance of uncertainties and inconsistencies in
early texts and on metalinguistic information. An important starting point is
the analysis of the Moravian Mission’s speakers community by using Bell’s
Audience Design Model.

Second, five case studies, using the digital Clarin-NEHOL-corpus, present
insight into the links of the writers/translators with their audience of
Creole speakers, their background, and religious traditions.

The third part of this work is dedicated to early twentieth century fieldwork
in which spoken Creole was recorded. Metalinguistic comments and study of the
fieldwork practices show that the study of this material also benefits from a
philological approach.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): Negerhollands (dcr)

Written In: English  (eng)

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