Publications

Publication details [#25949]

Winer, Lise and Hans E. A. Boos. 1993. Right throughs, rings and taws: marbles terminology in Trinidad and Tobago. Language in Society 22 (1) : 41–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's play | creole | discourse analysis | gender | pitch

Language as a subject

English, Tobago Creole | English, Trinidad Creole

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper analyzes marbles talk in Trinidad and Tobago Creole, and demonstrates how it shows features of 'masculine' gender-linked use of language and games and confrontational and competitive use of language.