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Faraclas, Nicholas, ed. 2012. Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages. The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles. (Creole language library 45). John Benjamins. xiii+ 246 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This book offers a fresh perspective on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts of creole genesis, this volume considers socio-historical and linguistic evidence that attests to the important roles played in the emergence of the Atlantic and Pacific Creoles by marginalized populations, such as women and people of non-European descent. In this work, the authors amass and critically analyze a wealth of compelling data not only from phonology, morpho-syntax, pragmatics, and descriptive, theoretical, and applied linguistics, but also from history, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, and critical theory to demonstrate how enterprising women, rebellious slaves, insubordinate sailors, and a host of other renegades and maroons had a major impact on the creolized societies, cultures, and languages of the colonial era Atlantic and Pacific.

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