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Language, Race and the Global Jamaican

Karen Carpenter author Hubert Devonish author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:24th Jun '21

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This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds. The authors trace the history of how a nation of less than three million people has come to be at the centre of cultural, racial and linguistic influence globally; producing a culture than has transformed the way that the world listens to music, and a dialect that has formed the lingua franca for a generation of young people. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Caribbean linguistics, Africana studies, diaspora studies, sociology of language and sociolinguistics more broadly.

ISBN: 9783030457501

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126 pages

1st ed. 2020