1.Distinguish between pidgins and creoles. Pidgin language is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. It is most commonly used in situations such as trade‚ or where both groups speak languages different from the language of the country in which they live in (but where there is no common language between the groups). In addition‚ pidgins have a distinct set of characteristics that make them differ from the
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Development of Haitian Creole As written in Jacques Arends’ “Pidgin and Creole: An Introduction‚” Haitian Creole first originated from a pidgin. With time‚ this pidgin gradually developed into a creole‚ later on becoming the co-official language of Haiti. Haitian Creole may be recognized as one of the official languages‚ along with French‚ however there are negative associations linked with this creole. For instance‚ the stereotypical view of a speaker of Haitian Creole still remains as one
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The Creoles still spoke French and continued their customs. Many free people of color also spoke French and were part of Creole culture. Another group of Creoles came to Louisiana after the slave revolution in Haiti. More French Speaking people left France because of the French Revolution. Irish immigrants came during the colonial period‚ but the largest number came after the 1830s because of poverty and famine in Ireland. Many pioneers in North Louisiana lived a frontier lifestyle. Acadians continued
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Kamau Brathwaite‚ a historian and poet was greatly inspired by a seminar held by Robert Adams in 1957‚ where he described ‘Creole culture’. Unlike Adams however‚ Brathwaitesaw Creole cultures as a process of culture change‚ rather than just a description of a Creole society. Brathwaite believed that creolization occurs at 2 levels: “ac-culturation‚ which is the yoking (by force and example‚ deriving from power/prestige) of one culture to another (in this case the enslaved/African to the European);
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Plantation Society and Creole Society There is a vast range of cultural diversity in the Caribbean today. In this paper‚ I would be discussing the similarities and differences found between the plantation society model and the Creole society model. The plantation model was developed in the late 1960’s. According to the book Mustapha (2009)‚ the plantation system played a dominant role in the economic‚ social‚ political and cultural life of the Caribbean. George Beckford (1972) saw the plantation
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Why did the Creoles Lead the fight against the spanish? Asia is Latin America and the Caribbean’s second largest trading partner after the US. As Asia demanded for commodities‚ the result was a trade between Asia and Latin America/the Caribbean grew over 20% a year in the past decade‚ receiving a lot of pay. Followed by the Creoles‚ who were of Spanish descent‚ but were considered inferior because they were born in Latin America. The Creoles lead the revolutions to gain more political power; they
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setting and the Creole culture of The Awakening play important roles in Edna’s transformation. Throughout The Awakening‚ we see how Edna starts to realize she wants a different life. We see how she transforms from a conservative woman and a woman devoted to her husband to a woman who wants to be alone‚ independent‚ and doesn’t want the bonds of marriage to restrict her life. Edna had modern day thoughts and wanted a modern day lifestyle all those years ago in the 19th century. The Creole culture was
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Under colonization‚ large numbers of people were able to neither to maintain their ancestral languages nor to shift to the colonial language. Instead they created new languages (pidgins and creoles) that were only partly based on the languages around them. The kind of contact that gave rise to pidgins and creoles is contrasted with the acquisition and spread of languages of power and prestige under colonialism‚ especially varieties that have come to be called ‘New Englishes’. The nineteenth century
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In Sierra Leone‚ there are many different languages‚ but only several are commonly used. Krio‚ which is an English based Creole‚ is the first language of 10% of the population‚ but it is spoken and understood by approximately 90% of the population. English‚ while the country’s official language‚ is limited to the approximately 48% of Sierra Leoneans that are literate. Another language is Mende‚ the lingua franca and main language of the southern portion of the country‚ spoken by approximately 30%
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Late 19th Century Creole Society as it pertains to: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening During the 1890?s‚ New Orleans was an interesting place to be. Characterized by strict social codes‚ both spoken and unspoken‚ a prosperous lifestyle was the reward for following these strict laws of the society. This conformity made for a strenuous situation for Edna Pontellier‚ the protagonist of Kate Chopin?s novel‚ The Awakening. It is of utmost necessity that Chopin places Edna in this unique setting‚ both because
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