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Publication details [#42617]

DeGraff, Michel. 2005. Linguists' most dangerous myth: The fallacy of Creole Exceptionalism. Language in Society 34 (4) : 533–591.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | creole | evolution of language | ideology | language contact

Language as a subject

Creole, Carribean

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing particularly on data from Haitian Creole, it is argued that the belief set of 'Creole Exceptionalism', as a sociohistorically rooted 'truth', hinders scientific and social progress both in and concerning Creole communities.