John H. Mcwhorter

The Creole Debate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781108450836
• ISBN-10: 1108450830
• Artikelnr.: 50439795

Autorenporträt

John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Having written 19 books on both language and race issues, he is also a prolific voice on a number of political and social issues, with regular articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The creole exceptionalism hypothesis
2. Is creolization just language mixture?
3. Is creolization just second-language acquisition?
4. What about complexity?
5. Newer challenges
6. Envoi.