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eBook
Playing with languages
2012
Overview
Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children's agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children's cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.
Publisher
Berghahn Books,Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject
/ Code switching (Linguistics)-Dominica
/ Communicative competence in children
/ Communicative competence in children -- Dominica
/ Cultural
/ Diglossia (Linguistics)-Dominica
/ Dominica
/ Dominica -- Social life and customs
/ JHMC
/ Language acquisition -- Dominica
/ Language and culture -- Dominica
/ Language awareness in children
/ Language awareness in children -- Dominica
ISBN
0857457608, 9780857457615, 0857457616, 9780857457608
