of the Americas Jonathan Yang Period 5 The wars of independence in Latin America were due to the grievances of the Creoles against the Peninsular Spaniards. Looking at the Latin American War of Independence‚ it shows that the Creoles were being treated unfairly by the Peninsulars much like the way the Colonists were treated by the British. The main reasons as to why the Creoles were treated poorly were because they were not born in Spain‚ thus making them inferior to the Peninsulars. The unfair
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CREOLE ENGLISH AND BLACK ENGLISH by Mark Sebba Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT‚ England e-mail: M.Sebba@lancaster.ac.uk © 2002 Mark Sebba THE ORIGINS OF "BLACK ENGLISH" "Black English" can refer to two different language varieties: (1) the type of English used by people of African and Caribbean descent who live in Britain; (2) the language of African-Americans (negroes) in the United States. This is usually called Black English
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Pidgins and Creoles Here are five areas into which the class discussion of pidgins and creoles will be divided. Structural Simplification Explain what structural simplification of language is and why it occurs during the process of pidginization. Illustrate simplification of language at the phonological‚ morphological‚ syntactic‚ and lexical levels. Pidgins and Creoles differentiated Compare Ferguson’s and Stewart’s definitions of pidgin and creole. Use Hymes’s criteria of inner form
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Beginning in the 15th century‚ Spanish explorers conquered almost all of the New World‚ Mexico‚ the Caribbean Islands‚ and South America. Most of these societies were controlled by a strict social hierarchical system with the Peninsulares at the top‚ followed by the Creoles‚ then finally the mixed classes of Mestizos‚ Mulattos‚ Native Americans‚ and the African Americans who made up majority of the population. However‚ at the beginning of the 19th century with all the turmoil occurring in Spain
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Jamaican Creole and Standard English Contrasted | Between 1066 and 1362‚ French was the official language of the England. English was viewed as an inferior vulgar hybridised Creole of Anglo-Saxon‚ Jutish‚ and Danish dialects. (Incidentally‚ Norman French itself could be described as a vulgar hybridised Creole of Gaulish‚ Latin‚ Norse‚ and Frankish dialects). Obviously‚ that opinion has changed‚ and in view of the humble origins of English it might be expected that English be understanding and
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Introduction In this essay we attempt to describe the Louisiana Creole according to its history or origin‚ its speech community‚ its geographical location and the reasons why it is considered a Creole and not a language. Pidgin and Creole We can start this assignment by defining what a Creole is. However‚ in order to do this‚ we also have to define what a Pidgin is. Let us begin in that way. A Pidgin is a language with no native speakers; it is a contact language. In fact‚ the term pidgin
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meaning of British Creole since it is not only a Creole but an ethnolect of the Black British community‚ whereas some people may say that it is a vernacular of British English. The linguist Peter L. Patrick claims that British Creole is the product of contact between the Creole language varieties of migrants from the Caribbean‚ and vernacular varieties of Urban English English. (Peter L. Patrick 2003: 231) So one could say that British Creole is a compounded variety of the Jamaican Creole Patois‚ and a
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a social class known as Creoles‚ which were born in the Americas yet their ancestors originate from Europe. Peninsulares‚ who were Spanish and born in Spain‚ migrated to the colonies of Creoles‚ who were Spanish and lived in America‚ taking over and working in the highest
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topic 1-2 Pieces of related information Bad English or Creole? By Peter Espeut 3-5 Cooper fires at Green paper 6-7 Reflective Poem: The Jamaican Creole 8 Drama: A Misunderstanding
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A. THE DEFINITON OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGE A.1 THE DEFINITION OF PIDGIN The etymology of pidgin is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary derives it from the English word business as pronounced in Chinese Pidgin English‚ which was of course used for transacting business. Other possible sources derived pidjom ‘exchange‚ trade‚ redemption; a Chinese pronunciation of the Portuguese word ocupação ‘business’; or a South Seas pronunciation of English beach as beachee‚ from the location where
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