"The maniac bellowed" : queer affect and queer temporality in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre [PDF]
, 2015 textCharlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre, is commonly read as a feminist bildungsroman in which a young woman claims her independence. In opposition to these readings, I instead choose to question the ways in which the novel's feminist potential is elided
Davis, Carolyn Marjorie
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Decolonizing Creole: creative practices in Mauritian Creole [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2016 Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place
Gitanjali Pyndiah
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The perception of the French /s/-/ʃ/ contrast in early Creole-French bilinguals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 One particularity of the Mauritian Creole language is that there is no contrastive distinction between the consonants /s/ and /ʃ/, which are both pronounced /s/ in Creole.
Sophie eDufour +3 more
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Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion: A critical analysis of indigenous student language data in Queensland Schools [PDF]
, 2015 As part of the ‘Bridging the Language Gap’ project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be ‘invisible’ in several key and self-reinforcing ways in ...
Angelo, Denise, Dixon, Sally
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A new look at the Portuguese element in Saramaccan
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004 This article contains what is possibly the most accurate wordlist of Portuguese-derived items in Saramaccan (a creole language spoken in the interior of Suriname) produced so far, and attempts to establish the proportions of Portuguese – versus English ...
Hugo Cardoso, Norval Smith
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Poésie de la langue des colonies dans Nos Créoles d’Armand Corre (1890)
Études CaribéennesThe aim of this article is to show how the reflection on the Creole language put forward by Armand Corre, a Navy doctor, in the ‘political-sociological’ study he published in 1890 under the title Nos Créoles, is nourished by anthropological biases that ...
Odile Hamot
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Représentations des « mélanges » linguistiques en Martinique : des créolismes au français régional
Études Créoles, 2019 Starting from the popular meaning attributed to the French word mélange (mixing), this article focuses on the delineation of French and Creole in the linguistic representations of young Martinican students with bilingual language practices.
Jean-David Bellonie, Elissa Pustka
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Competing creole transcripts on trial [PDF]
, 2000 A criminal prosecution of Jamaican Creole (JC) speaking ‘posse’(=gang) members in New York included evidence of recorded speech in JC.
Buell, Samuel W, Patrick, Peter L
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Yon literasi an kreyòl an Ayiti: kle pou reyisit eskolè ak eliminasyon kreyolofobi a
Études Caribéennes, 2022 Haiti is facing an educational crisis that depends in part on a literacy crisis in a bilingual context where French is the main language of schooling, while Creole is the mother tongue of 100% of the population.
Martineau Nelson +2 more
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[Review of] Marcyliena Morgan , ed. Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations [PDF]
, 1995 The result of a 1990 conference on The Social Significance of Creole Language Studies sponsored by Pomona and Pitzer of the Claremont Colleges and the University of California, Los Angeles, this stimulating collection of six papers enriches the field ...
Herzfeld, Anita
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