Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity
Language, Culture, Identity
Published on 22. February 2018
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-90-04-36342-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
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Series
Edition
XIV, 418 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
8 farbige Abbildungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, color; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
717 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36342-7 (9789004363427)
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Persons
Jacqueline Knoerr, Ph.D. 1994, Habilitation 2006, is Head of Research Group and Extraordinary Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her publications and research focus on identity and difference, politics and policies in postcolonial contexts of diversity, nation-building, creolization and pidginization, childhood, gender, and migration. Her most recent monograph is Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, 2014.
Wilson Trajano Filho, Ph.D. (1998), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia. He has published widely on West Africa and Brazil, including The Powerful Presence of the Past (with J. Knoerr), Brill, 2010.
Contributors are: Eric A. Anchimbe, Maarten Bedert, Jan Blommaert, Juliana Braz Dias, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christine Jourdan, Jacqueline Knoerr, Christoph Kohl, Mariana Kriel, Andrea Lobo, Friederike Luepke, Anais Menard, William P. Murphy, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Richard Price, Sally Price, Wilson Trajano Filho, Kristian Van Haesendonck, and Kees van der Waal.
Wilson Trajano Filho, Ph.D. (1998), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia. He has published widely on West Africa and Brazil, including The Powerful Presence of the Past (with J. Knoerr), Brill, 2010.
Contributors are: Eric A. Anchimbe, Maarten Bedert, Jan Blommaert, Juliana Braz Dias, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christine Jourdan, Jacqueline Knoerr, Christoph Kohl, Mariana Kriel, Andrea Lobo, Friederike Luepke, Anais Menard, William P. Murphy, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Richard Price, Sally Price, Wilson Trajano Filho, Kristian Van Haesendonck, and Kees van der Waal.
Content
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1 Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Context, Content, Structure
?Jacqueline Knoerr and Wilson Trajano Filho
2 Creolization and Pidginization as Concepts of Language, Culture and Identity
?Jacqueline Knoerr
Part 2: Situating Creole Languages in Society
3 Lingua Franca Onset in a Superdiverse Neighbourhood: Oecumenical Dutch in Antwerp
?Jan Blommaert
4 Language and Ethnic Hierarchy in Mauritius
?Thomas Hylland Eriksen
5 The Shades of Legitimacy of Solomon Islands Pijin
?Christine Jourdan
6 Saamaka Language, Ethnicity, and Identity: Suriname and Guyane
?Richard Price and Sally Price
7 Swahili Creolization and Postcolonial Identity in East Africa
?Francis Nesbitt
8 Chronicle of a Creole: The Ironic History of Afrikaans
?Mariana Kriel
9 Creole Language and Identity in Guinea-Bissau: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives
?Christoph Kohl
Part 3: Ideology and Meaning in Creole Language Usages
10 Multiple Choice: Language Use and Cultural Practice in Rural Casamance between Convergence and Divergence
?Friederike Luepke
11 Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion Related to a Creole Language: 'Krio' as an Ambivalent Semiotic Register in Present-Day Sierra Leone
?Anais Menard
12 Krio Identity and Violence: Language Ideologies of Political Disloyalty in the Sierra Leonean Civil War
?William P. Murphy
13 Indexing Alterity: The Performance of Language in Processes of Social Differentiation in Postwar Liberia
?Maarten Bedert
14 Bambinos and kassu bodi: Comments on Linguistic Appropriations on Cape Verde Islands
?Andrea de Souza Lobo
Part 4: Creolization and Pidginization in Popular Culture
15 Language and Music in Cape Verde: Processes of Identification and Differentiation
?Juliana Braz Dias
16 Between Purity and Creolization: Representations of Race, Culture and Language in the New South Africa
?Kees van der Waal
17 Influence and Borrowing: Reflections on Decreolization and Pidginization of Cultures and Societies
?Wilson Trajano Filho
18 Cameroon Pidgin as Index of Speakers' Social Statuses and Roles: Evidence from Literary Texts
?Eric A. Anchimbe
19 From Cultural to Literary Pidginization
?Kristian Van Haesendonck
Index
List of Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1 Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Context, Content, Structure
?Jacqueline Knoerr and Wilson Trajano Filho
2 Creolization and Pidginization as Concepts of Language, Culture and Identity
?Jacqueline Knoerr
Part 2: Situating Creole Languages in Society
3 Lingua Franca Onset in a Superdiverse Neighbourhood: Oecumenical Dutch in Antwerp
?Jan Blommaert
4 Language and Ethnic Hierarchy in Mauritius
?Thomas Hylland Eriksen
5 The Shades of Legitimacy of Solomon Islands Pijin
?Christine Jourdan
6 Saamaka Language, Ethnicity, and Identity: Suriname and Guyane
?Richard Price and Sally Price
7 Swahili Creolization and Postcolonial Identity in East Africa
?Francis Nesbitt
8 Chronicle of a Creole: The Ironic History of Afrikaans
?Mariana Kriel
9 Creole Language and Identity in Guinea-Bissau: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives
?Christoph Kohl
Part 3: Ideology and Meaning in Creole Language Usages
10 Multiple Choice: Language Use and Cultural Practice in Rural Casamance between Convergence and Divergence
?Friederike Luepke
11 Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion Related to a Creole Language: 'Krio' as an Ambivalent Semiotic Register in Present-Day Sierra Leone
?Anais Menard
12 Krio Identity and Violence: Language Ideologies of Political Disloyalty in the Sierra Leonean Civil War
?William P. Murphy
13 Indexing Alterity: The Performance of Language in Processes of Social Differentiation in Postwar Liberia
?Maarten Bedert
14 Bambinos and kassu bodi: Comments on Linguistic Appropriations on Cape Verde Islands
?Andrea de Souza Lobo
Part 4: Creolization and Pidginization in Popular Culture
15 Language and Music in Cape Verde: Processes of Identification and Differentiation
?Juliana Braz Dias
16 Between Purity and Creolization: Representations of Race, Culture and Language in the New South Africa
?Kees van der Waal
17 Influence and Borrowing: Reflections on Decreolization and Pidginization of Cultures and Societies
?Wilson Trajano Filho
18 Cameroon Pidgin as Index of Speakers' Social Statuses and Roles: Evidence from Literary Texts
?Eric A. Anchimbe
19 From Cultural to Literary Pidginization
?Kristian Van Haesendonck
Index