Codeswitching on the Web
English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
1st Edition
Published on 28. September 2006
X, 302 pages
978-90-272-9330-5 (ISBN)
Description
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the creole continuum. The book will likewise be useful to students of computer-mediated communication, the use and development of non-standardized languages, language ecology, and codeswitching. The central methodological issue in this study is codeswitching in written language, a neglected area of study at the moment since most literature in codeswitching research is based on spoken data. The three analytical chapters present the data in a critical discussion of established and more recent theoretical approaches to codeswitching.
Fields that will benefit from this book include interactional sociolinguistics, creole studies, English as a world language, computer-mediated discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology.
Fields that will benefit from this book include interactional sociolinguistics, creole studies, English as a world language, computer-mediated discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology.
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Content
- Codeswitching on the Web
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1.1 An oral language in a written medium
- 1.2 Outline of the study
- 1.3 Background
- 1.4 The data: compilation and structure of the corpus
- 1.5 Methodology
- The creole continuum and CMC
- 2.1 Is the creole continuum reflected in Jamaican CMC?
- 2.2 Has a new variety of Jamaican English evolved in CMC?
- How the situation determines code choice - a "simple, almost one-to-one relationship"?
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Situational codeswitching in the corpus
- Giving contextualization cues
- 4.1 'Metaphorical codeswitching' in Gumperz's model
- 4.2 'We' and 'they' - sequential aspects of switching for contextualization cues
- 4.3 Summary
- Codeswitching and identity
- 5.1 Recent theoretical developments in sociolinguistics and discourse studies
- 5.2 Acts of Identity: convergence as identifi cation, divergence as distinction
- 5.3 Social personae as resources in identity construction
- 5.4 CS in narrative
- Summary of the analysis and discussion
- Conclusions
- 7.1 The changing functions of an old language in a new medium
- 7.2 Comparing Creole use in the Jamaican diaspora and in CMC
- 7.3 Advances in the study of English as a World Language
- 7.4 Relevance for CMC studies
- References
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
