The survival of people and languages : : schooners, goats and cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies / / by Julianne Maher.
In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies , Julianne Maher explains a rare linguistic anomaly, how a small homogeneous population of seventeenth century French settlers in the tiny island of St. Barth came to speak four separate langu...
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Maher, Julianne. The survival of people and languages : schooners, goats and cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies / by Julianne Maher. Leiden : Brill, 2013. 1 online resource (258 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture, 1879-5412 ; volume 5 Description based upon print version of record. English Preliminary Material -- 1. Origins -- 2. History’s Shuttlecock -- 3. The Social Ecology of St. Barthélemy -- 4. The Languages of St. Barthélemy -- 5. Language Survival and Language Loss -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. The St. Barth 1681 Census -- Appendix 2. Language Samples from Recorded Interviews -- References -- Index. In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies , Julianne Maher explains a rare linguistic anomaly, how a small homogeneous population of seventeenth century French settlers in the tiny island of St. Barth came to speak four separate languages. With a range of historical documents and eighteenth century eye-witness accounts, Maher reconstructs the island's social ecology that led to its fragmentation. The four speech varieties are closely examined and analyzed, using extensive native speaker interviews; with the impending demise of these languages such documentation is unique. Maher concludes that social factors such as poverty, economics, geography and small population size served to maintain linguistic barriers on the island for over two hundred fifty years. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Linguistic change Saint-Barthélemy. Languages in contact Saint-Barthélemy. Language and languages Variation Saint-Barthélemy. Multilingualism Saint-Barthélemy. Sociolinguistics Saint-Barthélemy. Historical linguistics Saint-Barthélemy. Saint-Barthélemy Languages Variation. Saint-Barthélemy History. 90-04-18326-4 Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; 5. |
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Preliminary Material -- 1. Origins -- 2. History’s Shuttlecock -- 3. The Social Ecology of St. Barthélemy -- 4. The Languages of St. Barthélemy -- 5. Language Survival and Language Loss -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. The St. Barth 1681 Census -- Appendix 2. Language Samples from Recorded Interviews -- References -- Index. |
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