Sounding in African American Vernacular English and Wording in Nigerian Pidgin: Ritualized insults and the African diaspora

Faraclas, Nicholas; Pérez González, Lourdes; Medina, Migdalia; Reyes, Wendell Villanueva

doi:10.1075/veaw.g34.05far

In:Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles
Edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge
[Varieties of English Around the World G34] 2005
► pp. 45–72

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Ritualized insults and the African diaspora

Sounding in African American Vernacular English and Wording in Nigerian Pidgin

Nicholas Faraclas | Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Lourdes Pérez González | Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Migdalia Medina | Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Wendell Villanueva Reyes | Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Published online: 28 September 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g34.05far

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