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Publication details [#14847]

Pressman, Jon F. 1998. Classification and counter-classification of language on Saint Barthélemy. Language in Society 27 (4) : 459–494.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

folk taxonomy | honorific | ideology

Language as a subject

Creole, Carribean

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

It is found that native speakers on the island of Saint Barthélemy classify the island's indigenous languages based on folk ideologies of honorification.