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Book Announcement: Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

  • 03 May 2017 10:42 AM
    Message # 4812241
    Joseph Farquharson (Administrator)

    Language and Slavery

    A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

    Jacques Arends

    Edited by Crit Cremers. In cooperation with Norval Smith, Eithne B. Carlin, S. de Haan, Adrienne Bruyn and Margot van den Berg

    Hardbound – Forthcoming


    ISBN 9789027252760EUR 105.00 USD 158.00

     

    e-Book – Forthcoming 

    ISBN 9789027265807EUR 105.00 USD 158.00


    This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to colonization by the English in 1651 and concludes that the formation of the Surinamese creoles goes back further than generally assumed. He provides an all-encompassing sociolinguistic overview of the colony up to the mid-19th century and shows how ethnicity, language attitude, religion and location had an effect on which languages were spoken by whom. The author discusses creole data gleaned from the earliest sources and interprets the attested variation. The book is completed by annotated textual data, both oral and written and representing different genres and stages of the Surinamese creoles. It will be of interest to linguists, historians, anthropologist, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname.

    [Creole Language Library, 52]  Expected June 2017.  xxvii, 458 pp. + index


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