Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity
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This timely and insightful publication, thought-provoking and highly educational, is dedicated to the memory of outstanding Caribbean linguist, Richard Allsopp. The contributors, many of them leading authorities on language variation in the Caribbean, explore various aspects of language, culture and identity in the region, focusing on themes that engaged Allsopp in his lifetime: Creole linguistics, Caribbean lexicography, language in folklore and religion, literature, music and dance, and language issues in Caribbean schools.

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This timely and insightful publication, thought-provoking and highly educational, is dedicated to the memory of outstanding Caribbean linguist, Richard Allsopp. The contributors, many of them leading authorities on language variation in the Caribbean, explore various aspects of language, culture and identity in the region, focusing on themes that engaged Allsopp in his lifetime: Creole linguistics, Caribbean lexicography, language in folklore and religion, literature, music and dance, and language issues in Caribbean schools.
Autorenporträt
Jeannette Allsopp is Director of the Centre for Caribbean Lexicography and Lecturer in Caribbean lexicography and linguistics, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. John R. Rickford is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Courtesy Professor in Education, and Pritzker Fellow in Undergraduate Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California.