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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