Hubert Devonish
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hubert Devonish is involved.
2010 Swimming against the tide: Jamaican Creole in education Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects, Migge, Bettina, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens (eds.), pp. 167–182 | Article
In implementing its Bilingual Education Project (BEP), involving the use of Jamaican Creole and English, the Jamaican Language Unit (JLU) has sought to meet the criteria set out by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture in Jamaica for teaching in the home language (MOEYC 2001). The Ministry… read more
2003 Caribbean Creoles Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 41–67 | Article
1996 Kom Groun Jamiekan Daans Haal Liricks: Memba SE A Plie Wi A Plie: Contextualizing Jamaican 'Dance Hall' music: Jamaican language at play in a speech event English World-Wide 17:2, pp. 213–237 | Article
This article analyses a Jamaican cultural event, "Dance Hall", as a speech event. It then focusses on a particular controversy surrounding the lyrics of a piece of dance hall music performed by Buju Banton. It argues that much of the discussion about the lyrics in Britain and the USA dealt with… read more
1986 The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean Focus on the Caribbean, Görlach, Manfred † and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Article