ISBN:
9781443898997
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Regis, Ferne Louanne The Trinidad Dougla : Identity, Ethnicity and Lexical Choice
DDC:
305.80399999999997
Keywords:
Racially mixed people--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--Language
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In their search for personal identity, Trinidad's Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation. This is reflected as much in their unclear and uncertain social positioning in a society of competing ethnic groups as in the linguistic possibilities open to them in their quotidian social interactions as they negotiate between their parent communities.Trinidadian English Creole (TEC), the mother tongue or lingua franca of the majority of the population, exhibits a lexical amalgam of donor varieties brought to the island during the period of its colonization. The extent to which Trinidadians employ these lexical items is linked to their affinity to a particular donor group. As a consequence of this, Dougla ethnicity and identity are hypothesized as being expressed chiefly through the use of lexical items available to them via their upbringing in specific communities.This book describes and analyses specific lexical items in use by Douglas, who reside in mixed-race communities, as well as communities stereotypically marked Indic and Afric by Trinidadians, to determine the extent to which Douglas project a distinct identity, a subsumed identity linked to an ancestral ethnic group or a shifting identity based on accommodative strategies employed during interaction within their social networks
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription Conventions -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- References -- Appendix -- Index
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