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  • Reimagining Creole Communities

    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This volume undertakes a reimagination of Creole communities in the Caribbean and beyond by addressing the persistent disconnect between contemporary research on Creole communities and Sociolinguistics. While it acknowledges that early interactions between these fields have been fruitful, especially in understanding variation, Creole grammars and their relationship to their input languages, ... Read more

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  • Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean

    Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics

    Series series InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
    The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance, yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region, consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency.Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores the region’s history of ... Read more

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  • Contact Languages and Music

    Language and music are connected in many ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to express distinct and complex identities, attitudes, ideologies, social roles and political views. Spaces characterized by migration, contact, multilingualism, and colonial inequalities, are particularly interesting ... Read more

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    Series series Linguistics in the World
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    Series series Refiguring American Music
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    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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    Series Book 10 - Linguistics in the World
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    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
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    Series series Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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