The Trinidad Dougla : identity, ethnicity and lexical choice /

The Trinidad Dougla : identity, ethnicity and lexical choice /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Regis, Ferne Louanne, author.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description:	xvii, 222 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Racially mixed people -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Language. Blacks -- Race identity -- Social aspects -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. Ethnicity -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Language. Identity (Psychology) -- Trinidad and Tobago. Creole dialects, English -- Trinidad and Tobago. Creole dialects, English. Identity (Psychology) Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10863686

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ISBN:	1443890790 9781443890793
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index.
Summary:	In their search for personal identity, Trinidad's Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation. This is reflected as much in their unclear and uncertain social positioning in a society of competing ethnic groups as in the linguistic possibilities open to them in their quotidian social interactions as they negotiate between their parent communities.Trinidadian English Creole (TEC), the mother tongue or lingua franca of the majority of the population, exhibits a lexical amalgam of donor varieties brought to the island during the period of its colonization.

Table of Contents:

The Dougla in Trinidadian society : historical and contemporary perspectives
Language and ethnicity in Trinidad
The sample
Lexical usage in six partial personal networks
Investigating three communities of practice.