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Download full textWatkins, Audrey P. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2008
This work addresses the politics of speech and language communication with respect to Africans in the Diaspora in Jamaica and in the United States of America. Language hegemony is an expression of the power and control sustained by means of institutions such as schools. Depending on their linguistic choices or situational language use, post…
Descriptors: Social Justice, African Culture, Linguistics, Foreign Countries
McAlpine, Julie Carlson – Elementary English, 1973
Discusses the contributions of Louise Bennett in depicting Jamaican folklore. (MM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Literature, Books, Elementary Education
Holm, John – 1985
Twenty linguistic features found in essays of Creole-speaking students taking remedial writing courses at Hunter College are discussed and illustrated. The students spoke a creole or post-creole language as their mother tongue. The language varieties, which are those most frequently encountered in East Coast urban centers from Boston to Miami, are…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Creoles
