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Download full textRickford, John R. – 1980
The standard view of language attitudes in a creole continuum is that the creole is considered bad and the standard language is considered good. This standard view fits with the theory of decreolization by which such continua are thought to have come about. A study was carried out in Guyana in an effort to overcome the perceived limitations of the…
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Research
