The Making Of Mauritian Creole
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The Making Of Mauritian Creole
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Author : Philip Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Making Of Mauritian Creole written by Philip Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Mauritius
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Author : Jacques K. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Merlin Press
Release Date : 2008-07-24
Mauritius written by Jacques K. Lee and has been published by Merlin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-24 with Creole dialects, French categories.
"The book meets the general needs of tourists and business travellers with key paragraphs for every possible situation." "All you need to know about Mauritian Creole in a nutshell." What is Mauritian Creole? A pidgin French which has evolved in Mauritius since the beginning of French rule nearly 300 years ago. Today it is the lingua franca of the country. It has no grammatical or other rules, no verbs to conjugate and no orthography. Non?Mauritians will probably find it the easiest foreign language to learn. The book has been written with these very people in mind and incorporates an English?Creole dictionary. The result is the most comprehensive book available for anyone wishing to learn Mauritian Creole. In this book the first attempt has been made to further simplify the language and make it even easier to learn and speak. Apostrophes and cedillas have been banished, so have unnecessary silent letters; accents have been reduced to just two, and used sparingly. Thus famille is spelt fami, Paques / Pac, cadeau /cado, François/ Fransoi and so on. The book gives the origins of many words, explains typical Creole expressions and idioms. It even provides a system of grading to denote the strength of swear words! Unusually for a language book, it also includes a comprehensive guide to Mauritian gastronomy with descriptions of most Creole dishes, as these have contributed the largest number of new words in use today, as can be seen in the chapter on the latest additions to Creole. The book is in two sections. Part One is for tourists who just want a phrase book. Part Two is for those who are interested in Mauritian Creole as a language and includes its history, tracing its origin, and evolution .
Creating The Creole Island
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Author : Megan Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2005-02
Creating The Creole Island written by Megan Vaughan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.
Towards A Social History Of Mauritian Creole
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Author : Philip Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Towards A Social History Of Mauritian Creole written by Philip Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Creole dialects, French categories.
The Routledge Handbook Of Pidgin And Creole Languages
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Author : Umberto Ansaldo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-29
The Routledge Handbook Of Pidgin And Creole Languages written by Umberto Ansaldo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a rich socio-historical context, this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into three sections, its analysis covers: Space and place – areal perspective on pidgin and creole languages Usage, function and power – sociolinguistic and artistic perspectives on pidgins and creoles, creoles as sociocultural phenomena Framing of the study of pidgin and creole languages – history of the field, interdisciplinary connections Demonstrating how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are, how rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.
Colouring The Rainbow
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Author : Marina Carter
language : en
Publisher: Centre for Research
Release Date : 1998
Colouring The Rainbow written by Marina Carter and has been published by Centre for Research this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Mauritius Its Creole Language
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Author : Jacques K. Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-08-15
Mauritius Its Creole Language written by Jacques K. Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Syntax And Semantics Of A Determiner System
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Author : Diana Guillemin
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011
The Syntax And Semantics Of A Determiner System written by Diana Guillemin and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms, that share some of the distributional properties of English bare plurals. New MC determiners are analyzed as 'type shifting operators' that shift Kinds into predicates, and serve to establish the referential properties of noun phrases. The analysis provides evidence for the universality of semantic features like Definiteness and Specificity, and the mapping of their form and function.
Mauritius
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Author : Foufou Savitzky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Mauritius written by Foufou Savitzky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Creole dialects, French categories.
Sociolinguistics And The Narrative Turn
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Author : Rada Tirvassen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-12-10
Sociolinguistics And The Narrative Turn written by Rada Tirvassen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In proposing the use of an alternative method for generating knowledge in the field of sociolinguistics, this book presents a fresh point of view. To introduce his argument, the author gives a well-considered critique of some of the guiding principles of traditional sociolinguists. Then, conducting a small-scale study involving seven participants, he shows how a qualitative narrative approach can renew the theorisation of the relationship between language and society.