Language, race and the global Jamaican

by Devonish, Hubert

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This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds. The authors trace the history of how a nation of less than three million people has come to be at the centre of cultural, racial and linguistic influence globally; producing a culture than has transformed the way that the world listens to music, and a dialect that has formed the lingua fr…

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  • Full title :Language, race and the global Jamaican. / Hubert Devonish; Karen Carpenter.

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This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds. The authors trace the history of how a nation of less than three million people has come to be at the centre of cultural, racial and linguistic influence globally; producing a culture than has transformed the way that the world listens to music, and a dialect that has formed the lingua franca for a generation of young people. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Caribbean linguistics, Africana studies, diaspora studies, sociology of language and sociolinguistics more broadly.

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  • Publication Date:2020.

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  • Description:126 p.

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  • oclc:on1198095104
  • LC Classification:P121-143.3
  • Dewey Decimal:410

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Devonish, Hubert Carpenter, Karen

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