John H. Mcwhorter: The Creole Debate

Cover: 9781108450836 | The Creole Debate | John H. Mcwhorter | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2019

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Beschreibung

Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.

Über den Autor

John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Having written 19 books on both language and race issues, he is also a prolific voice on a number of political and social issues, with regular articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The creole exceptionalism hypothesis; 2. Is creolization just language mixture?; 3. Is creolization just second-language acquisition?; 4. What about complexity?; 5. Newer challenges; 6. Envoi.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft , Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781108450836
ISBN-10:	1108450830
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mcwhorter, John H.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	John H. Mcwhorter
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.03.2019
Gewicht:	0,27 kg