29.2086, Books: The Creole Debate: McWhorter

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:33:54
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Creole Debate: McWhorter

 


Title: The Creole Debate 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/historical-linguistics/creole-debate?format=PB#MjP6uVaDp3ba2D8c.97 


Author: John H. McWhorter

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108450836 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108450836 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 17.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108450836 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 21.00


Abstract:

Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many
conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and
linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole
specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything
but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and
Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted
idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking
characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption
that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts
support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their
own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.
   
    ::::: Advance praise:  ‘This eloquent and well-researched book on creole
languages is the final nail to the coffin of the ideologists who claim that
there is nothing special about the grammars of these lang
   
   
Introduction; 1. The creole exceptionalism hypothesis; 2. Is creolization just
language mixture?; 3. Is creolization just second-language acquisition?; 4.
What about complexity?; 5. Newer challenges; 6. Envoi.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Creole


Written In: English  (eng)

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