Exploring language in a multilingual context variation, interaction and ideology in language documentation /

"Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties called Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropo...

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Main Author: Migge, Bettina
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: L�eglise, Isabelle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The political, social and linguistic contexts of French Guiana; 3. The Maroons: historical and anthropological notes; 4. What's in the name Takitaki? Investigating linguistic ideologies; 5. The social profiles of some Takitaki speakers: the data for this study; 6. Towards the linguistic structure of Takitaki: an analysis of Takitaki; 7. Communicating in Takitaki: Maroons and non-Maroons in interaction; 8. Linguistic practices among urban Maroons; 9. On Takitaki and its insights.