R. B. Le Page

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Produktbeschreibung

R B Le Page (1920-2006) was one of the founding fathers of sociolinguistics. From an impoverished and unpromising start in east London WW2, and after a dangerous few years flying against submarines during the war, he worked his way through Oxford to become a young lecturer at the new University College of the West Indies in the 1950s, then a professorship in Malaya, and finally at York University. It was in Jamaica that he developed a lifelong interest in multilingual communities and creole languages, developing an idea of language creation not as an abstract set of rules, but as what real people do in complex daily lives. This view conflicted with the prevailing Chomskyan idea of "deep rules" and idealised speakers, theories which Le Page regarded as inherently absurd. His ideas of language in society have been hugely influential.

This marvellously humane and witty autobiography describes the slow foment of his idea over four decades of work at twelve diffierent universities, leading to the creation (with Fred Cassidy) of the Dictionary of Jamaican English which is still a standard work, and the seminal study Acts of Identity (with A.Tabouret-Keller).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stupor Mundi Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386930389
• Artikelnr.: 52617487

Autorenporträt

Bob Le Page (1920-2006) was a founding father of sociolinguistics. Growing up in the east of London in the 1920s, and after a perilous WW2 flying against U-boats, he worked his way through Oxford to become a young lecturer in English at the new University College of the West Indies in the early 1950s. There - based on his observation of multilingual Caribbean societies - began the slow foment of his view of language as not some theoretical construct of "deep rules" and idealised speakers (as many linguists studied) but as the complex "acts of identity" of real people in their difficult daily lives.

After Jamaica he moved to a professorhip in Malaya, and then founded the first British school of sociolinguistics at York University, as well as teaching in the USA, Singapore, Norway and elsewhere, and a longterm collaboration with A.Tabouret-Keller in Strasbourg. His longstanding involvement with creole language communities led him to a profoundly humane and sympathetic view of language behaviour which has grown steadily in influence over the years.