LINC47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jamaican Patois, Creolistics, Historical Linguistics
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Not spoken in europe, most of asia and a lot of the colonizers. Connection between speakers and where they would move to. Some movements were for the purpose of trade and others were due to economics. Bastard tongues used with a negative sense. They weren"t real languages, spoken by uneducated people. There were attitudes within the language speakers as well: many don"t consider. Inferior forms of communication their language as a real language: they won"t identify themselves as creole speakers, they aren"t comfortable speaking their language when around outsiders, some speakers have pride over the language they speak. Up until relatively recently linguists hesitated to identify themselves as creolists. Studies were more general than theoretical: ex. list of words, or some description of what the grammar was. There are regional dialects and social dialects. Regional dialects: is geographical, variation based on different geographical location: ex.
