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Embarrassing Anecdotes and Recovery: Language Attitudes and the Consequences of Haiti's Language Policy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
wiley   +1 more source

Video introduction to issue 9

open access: yesAngles, 2019
This video introduces the thematic contributions on ‘Reinventing the Sea’.
Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Ludmila Volná
doaj   +1 more source

Our creolized tongues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
It is often assumed that creole languages represent ‘exceptional’ language development in which a contact language or a variety largely spoken by late L2 learners nativizes and becomes the main language of a community. It is therefore not uncommon that scholars of contact languages or revitalized languages (e.g., Hebrew) ask whether such languages are ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
wiley   +1 more source

LENGUAS QUE NARRAN HISTORIA: lenguas y culturas criollas en el Caribe

open access: yesRevista Brasileira do Caribe, 2015
Na linguística se conhece o processo de criolização como um processo de mudança extremo a partir de uma situação particular de contato entre línguas. Esse processo pode relacionar-se como a colonização europeia da América, África, Ásia e inclusive da ...
Emma Hoebens
doaj  

‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
wiley   +1 more source

Creolization and balkanization as a result of language (dialect) contact. Is the origin of mixed languages universal?

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2015
Creolization and balkanization as a result of language (dialect) contact. Is the origin of mixed languages universal? There are several types of language contact depending on the relations between languages.
Michał Głuszkowski
doaj   +1 more source

“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
wiley   +1 more source

Where Different Waters Met: Aspects on the Apollo Grannus vase and its position near Sagån in the province of Västmanland

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2003
At some time during the Late Roman Iron Age, an originally provincial-Roman vessel called the Apollo Grannus vase was used as a burial urn in a stone-setting at Fycklinge in the province ofVästmanland, on the bank of Sagån by the small rapids where this
Lotta Fernstål
doaj   +1 more source

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