Codeswitching on the web : English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
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Codeswitching on the web : English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
（Pragmatics & beyond : new series, v. 147）
John Benjamins, c2006
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographies
Includes index
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Description
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the creole continuum. The book will likewise be useful to students of computer-mediated communication, the use and development of non-standardized languages, language ecology, and codeswitching. The central methodological issue in this study is codeswitching in written language, a neglected area of study at the moment since most literature in codeswitching research is based on spoken data. The three analytical chapters present the data in a critical discussion of established and more recent theoretical approaches to codeswitching.
Fields that will benefit from this book include interactional sociolinguistics, creole studies, English as a world language, computer-mediated discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. Abbreviations
- 3. 1. Introduction
- 4. 2. The creole continuum and CMC
- 5. 3. How the situation determines code choice - a "simple, almost one-to-one relationship"
- 6. 4. Giving contextualization cues: How writers provide context information through code choice
- 7. 5. Codeswitching and identity: How writers describe themselves through code choice
- 8. 6. Summary of the analysis and discussion
- 9. 7. Conclusions
- 10. References
- 11. Appendix
- 12. Notes
- 13. Index
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