Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency
Edited by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson
[Creole Language Library, 37] 2011. vi, 276 pp.
Lars Hinrichs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lars Hinrichs plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
Lars Hinrichs
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 147] 2006. x, 302 pp.
Subjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Multilingualism | Pragmatics
Articles
2022. Review of Honkanen (2020): World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA. English World-Wide 43:1, pp. 130–134
Review
2011. Global Englishes and the sociolinguistics of spelling: A study of Jamaican blog and email writing. English World-Wide 32:1, pp. 46–73
This paper contributes to a small, but quickly growing body of literature that looks at orthographic variation as a semiotic resource with which social stances and relations are expressed and created. First, we analyze a corpus of blog and email writing from Jamaica and its diaspora — two settings… read more | Article
2011. Introduction. Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 1–9
Article
2008. Probabilistic determinants of genitive variation in spoken and written English: A multivariate comparison across time, space, and genres. The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 291–309
This is a paper about language variation and about language change, investigating the competition between the s-genitive and the of-genitive in Modern English (written and spoken, British and American) as a case study. Drawing on a range of spoken and written corpora and considering a multivariate… read more | Article