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Publication details [#26483]

Aceto, Michael. 2002. Ethnic personal names and multiple identities in Anglophone Carribean speech communities in Latin America. Language in Society 31 (4) : 577–608.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | ethnicity | naming practice | speech community

Language as a subject

English, Caribbean | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines ethnic or Creole-derived name usage in Bastimentos, existing alongside second, Spanish-derived names, and preferred for reference and address as they reflexively define members of the speech community in terms of culture and ancestry.