36.2321, Books: Dialect on Air: Wengler (2025)

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Date: 30-Jul-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Dialect on Air: Wengler (2025)


Title: Dialect on Air
Subtitle: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw.g71

Author(s): Diana Wengler

eBook ISBN:  9789027244697 Pages:  216 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244697 Pages:  216 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244697 Pages:  216 Price: U.S. $ 169.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223500 Pages:  216 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223500 Pages:  216 Price: Europe EURO 137.80
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223500 Pages:  216 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223500 Pages:  216 Price: U.S. $ 169.00

Abstract:

Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such
research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due
to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard
languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera
from the early 1970s as a source of historical creole data. It
presents the first real-time analysis of selected grammatical and
phonological features of Bahamian Creole English. Situated within the
framework of comparative sociolinguistics, the study provides
quantitative variationist analyses of the zero copula, BE-levelling,
verbal negation, low vowels (i.e., the lexical sets of BATH, PALM,
START, and TRAP), and the closing diphthongs of MOUTH and PRICE. This
book will appeal not only to those interested in the analysis of
creole and non-standard varieties but also to those studying language
variation and change more broadly.

Written In: English (eng)



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