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Direct linkYakpo, Kofi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Suriname represents an interesting case of unidirectional multilingual convergence in a linguistic area. The multilingual ecology of Suriname is hierarchical. The Germanic language Dutch exerts structural and lexical influence 'downwards', but other languages do not do so 'upwards' to the same degree. This study analyses the development of word…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Classification, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries
Download full textMargarida César; Ricardo Machado – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
Culture shapes pupils' mathematical learning, their performances and life trajectories of participation (César, 2013a, 2013b). It also contributes to the senses they attribute to mathematical learning (Bakhtin, 1929/1981). Using collaborative work and interempowerment mechanisms facilitates knowledge appropriation (César, 2009). This is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Native Language, Portuguese, Creoles
Peer reviewedMyers-Scotton, Carol; Jake, Janice L. – International Journal of Bilingualism, 2000
Introduces this special issue of the journal and reports on new directions in the research that began with code switching, but increasingly has come to include other types of language contact phenomena. The articles in the issue report on analyses and explanations for a variety of outcomes in bilingual production. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Creoles
Peer reviewedMcWhorter, John H. – Language, 1998
Outlines three features that render creoles synchronically distinguishable from other languages, all three clear results of a break in transmission followed by a development period too brief for the traits to be undone as they have been in older languages. Shows that an expanded data set reveals flaws in the socio-historical argumentation behind…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification
Peer reviewedPressman, Jon F. – Language in Society, 1998
Analyzes the use of metapragmatic description in the ethnoclassification of language by native speakers on the Franco-Antillean island of Saint Barthelemy. A prevalent technique for metapragmatic description based on honorific pronouns that reflects the varied geolinguistic and generational attributes of the speakers is described. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Classification
Sandefur, John R. – 1986
A study of North Australia's Kriol language situation identifies the language, its speakers, its functions, and the sociopolitical factors in its emergence as an autonomous language. The first chapter reviews the development of the linguistic field concerning pidgins and creoles, looking especially at the concepts developed to explain the rise and…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Bilingualism, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics
