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Publication details [#46507]

Fenigsen, Janina. 2007. From Apartheid to incorporation: The emergence and transformations of modern language community in Barbados, West Indies. Pragmatics 17 (2) : 231–261.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hierarchy | language dominance | language use | social status | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Bajan | English, Barbadian

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores the historical roots of the commitment to English in Barbados and its ensuing categorization of people into first and second-class subjects and the resulting differential prestige and access to jobs and education.