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Étienne, Corinne. 2005. The lexical particularities of French in the Haitian press: Readers' perceptions and appropriation. Journal of French Language Studies 15 (3) : 257–277.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | identity negotiation | language contact | language variety | press

Language as a subject

Creole, Haitian | French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

www.journals.cup.org

Annotation

This paper discusses the (tolerating or stigmatizing) reactions of a Creole-French bilingual Haitian elite group to a sample of French lexical particularities in the Haitian press (1986–1998). These reactions reveal participants' linguistic identity and ambiguity.