Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó
Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 12 September 2019
- ISBN 9781108485814
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 235x157x18 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 b/w illus. 5 maps 11 tables 0
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Short description:
Explores theoretical and typological issues surrounding the emergence of creole languages, using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies.
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Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical insights into language shift, language acquisition and language change. It compares the legal system regulating black slavery in Chocó, Colombia with the systems implemented by other European colonial powers in the Americas, to address questions such as what do Chocó Spanish linguistic features say about the nature of Afro-Hispanic vernaculars? What were the sociohistorical conditions in which Chocó Spanish formed? Was slavery in Chocó much different from slavery in other European colonies? Whilst primarily focused on Afro-Hispanic language varieties, Sessarego's findings and methodology can be easily applied and tested to other contact languages and settings, and used to address current debates on the origin of other black communities in the Americas and the languages they speak.
'The final considerations emphasize, among other ideas, the importance of articulation in the humanities, and therein lies its greatest strength: this text not only contributes to creolistics and the study of language acquisition, but also allows other disciplines to demonstrate the interpretation of colonial documentary sources and the power of comparative law to understand the history of communication forms among Afro-descendant populations. Furthermore, it highlights the resilience and expressive richness of Black communities while offering an example of the use of the colonial archive and historical discourse.' Gloria J. Morales Osorio, Revista de Estudios Colombianos
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. The place of Chocó Spanish in the Spanish creole debate; 3. A sketch of Chocó Spanish; 4. Roots of some languages; 5. Black slavery in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia; 6. Testing the legal hypothesis of Creole genesis on colonial Chocó; 7. Final considerations.
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