31.1989, Books: Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Sessarego

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Subject: 31.1989, Books: Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Sessarego

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:32:43
From: Dan Iredale [diredale 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 
Series Title: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

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?format=HB 


Author: Sandro Sessarego

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108624527 Pages: 246 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108485814 Pages: 246 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108485814 Pages: 246 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

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
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Spanish-Based Creoles


Written In: English  (eng)

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