Janina Fenigsen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Janina Fenigsen plays a role.
2011 “Flying at half-mast”? Voices, genres, and orthographies in Barbadian Creole* Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Article
Bajan, a Barbadian creole, has no standard orthography. It is written and published in a variety of spellings, and its readership and the generic scope remain limited. The reception of Bajan texts is regimented by the history of representational practices that used non-standard spelling as parody.… read more
2007 From apartheid to incorporation: The emergence and transformations of modern language community in Barbados, West Indies Pragmatics 17:2, pp. 231–261 | Article
This article explores the insights that research on the emergence of ideologies of modernity and recent discussions of commensurability can offer for the understanding of the construction and maintenance of sociolinguistic hierarchies in Barbados. It takes as its focus (1) the ways in which the… read more
2005 Meaningful routines: Meaning-making and the face-value of Barbadian greetings Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, Mühleisen, Susanne and Bettina Migge (eds.), pp. 169–194 | Article
2003 Language ideologies in Barbados: Processes and paradigms Pragmatics 13:4, pp. 457–481 | Article
Barbadian ways of speaking draw their stylistic richness from intertwined and differentially valued resources of Creole (Bajan) and Barbadian English. Barbadians (and linguists) interpret this formal diversity through two ideological paradigms. One (labeled in Bajan, “adjusting to suit”)… read more
2003 Introduction Pragmatics 13:4, pp. 453–456 | Article