33.3272, Books: Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Sessarego

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:09:43
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Sessarego

 


Title: Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular 
Subtitle: Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/latin-american-language-and-linguistics/language-contact-and-making-afro-hispanic-vernacular-variation-and-change-colombian-choco?f 


Author: Sandro Sessarego

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108724777 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108724777 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108724777 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural
perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a
cohesive approach to provide new theoretical insights into language shift,
language acquisition and language change. It compares the legal system
regulating black slavery in Chocó, Colombia with the systems implemented by
other European colonial powers in the Americas, to address questions such as
what do Chocó Spanish linguistic features say about the nature of
Afro-Hispanic vernaculars? What were the sociohistorical conditions in which
Chocó Spanish formed? Was slavery in Chocó much different from slavery in
other European colonies? Whilst primarily focused on Afro-Hispanic language
varieties, Sessarego's findings and methodology can be easily applied and
tested to other contact languages and settings, and used to address current
debates on the origin of other black communities in the Americas and the
languages they speak.
 



1. Introduction; 2. The place of Chocó Spanish in the Spanish creole debate;
3. A sketch of Chocó Spanish; 4. Roots of some languages; 5. Black slavery in
the Pacific lowlands of Colombia; 6. Testing the legal hypothesis of Creole
genesis on colonial Chocó; 7. Final considerations.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=163394




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