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Robin Sabino

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Description:Language Contact in the Danish West Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to advance a revisionist history that elucidates the African linguistic resources used to create community in a land those who were transhipped did not choose and from which they could not return. In parallel fashion, the narrative locates the partial appropriation of creole features by the colony's Euro-Caribbean community in the emergence of local identity. It also traces the replacement of Dutch and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole with their English counterparts.Includes more than 300 unique sound records of the last native speaker.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 1). To get started finding Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Language Contact in the Danish West Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to advance a revisionist history that elucidates the African linguistic resources used to create community in a land those who were transhipped did not choose and from which they could not return. In parallel fashion, the narrative locates the partial appropriation of creole features by the colony's Euro-Caribbean community in the emergence of local identity. It also traces the replacement of Dutch and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole with their English counterparts.Includes more than 300 unique sound records of the last native speaker.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 1). To get started finding Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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