West Indian and Asian English in the UK <fwd>

[P L Patrick]

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From: P L Patrick <patrickp at essex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: West Indian and Asian English in the UK
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Scott et al.,
	I have a small bibliography (a dozen items w/brief comments)
online of book-length works (not journal articles) on 'British Black
English', aka 'London Jamaican':
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/aavesem/BBE.html
	 As it indicates, most of this work-- some of which is very
good-- focuses on the issue of, 'How Creole (and often, 'How
Jamaican...) is the speech of young people (mostly 20 or younger when
studied) of West Indian heritage in the UK?' As opposed to, eg,
examining the prevalence of dialectal British English features in their
speech. But linguistic description is better than in Hewitt or Rampton.

This biblio is attached to the somewhat larger (c.300 items)
"Bibliography of works on African American English" at:
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/aavesem/Biblio.html

Comments and additions welcomed to both.
Other relevant works include:
S. Alladina and Viv Edwards (eds), Multilingualism in the British Isles
Volume 2: Africa, the Middle East and Asia. London: Longman.
	and
Philip Baker's volume mapping minority languages across London, which
can be found via www.battlebridge.com (my browser is down just now);
this is a little peripheral but mgiht be useful:

Multilingual Capital: The languages of London's schoolchildren, by
Philip Baker and John Eversley (1999, London:Battlebridge)

This reminds me of one of my pet peeves, namely that the large and
burgeoning literature on European minority languages systematically
ignores Creoles and other vernaculars which might be cast as "dialects"
(eg Sranan in the Netherlands, or Guadeloupean-- wihch after all is
mostly spoken in France!)...

Thanks,
	--peter

Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Dept. of Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ
U.K.

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Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Dept. of Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ
U.K.

Tel: (from within UK) 01206.87.2088
    (from outside UK) +44.1206.87.2088
Fax: (as above)           1206.87.2198
Email: patrickp at essex.ac.uk
Web: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp