In:Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
Susanne Mühleisen
[Creole Language Library 24] 2002
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 18 November 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.24.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.24.toc
Table of contents
Abbreviations and transcription conventionsix
List of tables and figuresxi
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Introduction. Creole discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon
Creoles3
Chapter 1. Defining language prestige: The positioning of Creole in linguistic and social parameters23
Chapter 2. Forming language prestige: Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles as prototypical low prestige
languages55
Chapter 3. Negotiating language prestige: Towards a functional/discursive framework93
Chapter 4. From speech community to discourse communities: Changing Creole representations in the urban
diaspora135
Chapter 5. From badge of authenticity to voice of authority: Changing Creole representations in writing183
Chapter 6. From invisibility to register variation: Changing Creole representations in translation225
Conclusion263
Works cited269
Appendix287
