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Author:   Jacqueline Knorr ,  Wilson Trajano Filho
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.802kg
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9789004363427

ISBN 10:   9004363424
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   22 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Context, Content, Structure  Jacqueline Knörr and Wilson Trajano Filho 2 Creolization and Pidginization as Concepts of Language, Culture and Identity  Jacqueline Knörr Part 2: Situating Creole Languages in Society 3 Lingua Franca Onset in a Superdiverse Neighbourhood: Oecumenical Dutch in Antwerp  Jan Blommaert 4 Language and Ethnic Hierarchy in Mauritius  Thomas Hylland Eriksen 5 The Shades of Legitimacy of Solomon Islands Pijin  Christine Jourdan 6 Saamaka Language, Ethnicity, and Identity: Suriname and Guyane  Richard Price and Sally Price 7 Swahili Creolization and Postcolonial Identity in East Africa  Francis Nesbitt 8 Chronicle of a Creole: The Ironic History of Afrikaans  Mariana Kriel 9 Creole Language and Identity in Guinea-Bissau: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives  Christoph Kohl Part 3: Ideology and Meaning in Creole Language Usages 10 Multiple Choice: Language Use and Cultural Practice in Rural Casamance between Convergence and Divergence  Friederike Lüpke 11 Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion Related to a Creole Language: ‘Krio’ as an Ambivalent Semiotic Register in Present-Day Sierra Leone  Anaïs Ménard 12 Krio Identity and Violence: Language Ideologies of Political Disloyalty in the Sierra Leonean Civil War  William P. Murphy 13 Indexing Alterity: The Performance of Language in Processes of Social Differentiation in Postwar Liberia  Maarten Bedert 14 Bambinos and kassu bodi: Comments on Linguistic Appropriations on Cape Verde Islands  Andréa de Souza Lobo Part 4: Creolization and Pidginization in Popular Culture 15 Language and Music in Cape Verde: Processes of Identification and Differentiation  Juliana Braz Dias 16 Between Purity and Creolization: Representations of Race, Culture and Language in the New South Africa  Kees van der Waal 17 Influence and Borrowing: Reflections on Decreolization and Pidginization of Cultures and Societies  Wilson Trajano Filho 18 Cameroon Pidgin as Index of Speakers’ Social Statuses and Roles: Evidence from Literary Texts  Eric A. Anchimbe 19 From Cultural to Literary Pidginization  Kristian Van Haesendonck Index

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Jacqueline Knörr, Ph.D. 1994, Habilitation 2006, is Head of Research Group and Extraordinary Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her publications and research focus on identity and difference, politics and policies in postcolonial contexts of diversity, nation-building, creolization and pidginization, childhood, gender, and migration. Her most recent monograph is Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, 2014. Wilson Trajano Filho, Ph.D. (1998), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Brasília. He has published widely on West Africa and Brazil, including The Powerful Presence of the Past (with J. Knörr), Brill, 2010. Contributors are: Eric A. Anchimbe, Maarten Bedert, Jan Blommaert, Juliana Braz Dias, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christine Jourdan, Jacqueline Knörr, Christoph Kohl, Mariana Kriel, Andréa Lobo, Friederike Lüpke, Anaïs Ménard, William P. Murphy, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Richard Price, Sally Price, Wilson Trajano Filho, Kristian Van Haesendonck, and Kees van der Waal.

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