YPL1 – Issue 11 (July 1984)

Papers from the York Creole Conference, September 24–27 1983

Editors: Mark Sebba and Loreto Todd
Introduction
5–7
R.B. Le Page
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Social Networks and Urban New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin)
9–18
Jean Aitchison
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The Significance of Agglutinated French Articles in the Creole Languages of the Indian Ocean and Elsewhere
19–29
Philip Baker
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Linguistic Shift – Urban Creoles and the Black Child in European Inner City Schools
31–38
Petronella Breinburg
Abstract

This paper explores the hypotehsis that there is a linguistic shift in Language (dialect) of young black people in the inner cities of Europe. This shift is from the speech pattern of the parents, who are Creole speakers, to that of the lower working class indigenous population, and not that of the standard language indigenous population desired by the schools. There is also a movement towards a new form of the language of young black people. This new language I shall refer to as Urban Creole. There is also bi-dialectalism with the speaker moving from one speech form to another, depending on various factors. The main argument in this paper, however, is that the shift which is taking place is from Caribbean Creoles to local non-standard white speech. Generally speaking the items involved in this linguistic shift appear to be basically Vocabulary (lexical items in relation to Semantic), idiomatic expression and assimilations. The implication of this shift in relation to Education is a crucial one, since both parents and teachers pressurise the speaker into speaking what is called 'proper English' (rejecting so called 'backyard talk') and praise the speaker when a shift from the parents' speech has taken place. How much are teachers and parents aware that this 'proper English' they so approve of and applaud is nothing but the low status speech of the lower working class indigenous population, which has itself for many years been considered a handicap in Education. This paper is purely descriptive and represents work in progress and does not come to a conclusion.

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Instrumental in Saramaccan
39–50
Francis Byrne
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Le pidgin bichelamar avant et après l'independance de Vanuatu (cas d'une dépidginisation avant créolisation)
51–61
Jean-Michel Charpentier
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Creole Language Standardisation in Guyana: Race, Class and Urban-rural Factors
63–73
Hubert Devonish
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The Linguistic Status of British Sign Language
75–82
Viv Edwards and Paddy Ladd
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A Community-based Approach to the Provenance of Urban Guyanese Creole
83–94
Walter F. Edwards
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The Acquisition of Creole by Urban and Rural Black Caribs in Belize
95–106
Geneviève Escure
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Fanakalo: A Pidgin Caught in a Crisis
107–116
L. Ivens Ferraz
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Code-switched Discourse in Strasbourg
117–122
Penelope Garner-Chloros
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Evidence against an Anterior Tense System in Guyanese and Jamaican Creoles
123–129
Kean Gibson
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The First Systematic Survey of the World's Pidgins and Creoles: Hugo Schuchardt, 1882-1885
131–140
Glenn G. Gilbert
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Foreigner Talk: A Conversation-analysis Approach
141–152
Edith Harding
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Eye-witnessing Pidginization? Structural and Sociolinguistic Aspects of German and Turkish Foreigner Talk
153–166
Volker Hinnenkamp
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A Language of Sophiatown, Alexandra and Soweto
167–180
Tore Janson
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Aspects of the Morphology of English-derived Words in Sierra Leone Krio
181–190
Frederick C.V. Jones
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Expedient and Orientational Language Mixing in Hong Kong
191–201
Kang-Kwong Luke
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Is There Anything like Decreolization? Some Ongoing Changes in Bissau Creole
203–214
Alain Kihm
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Phonetic Aspects of Turn-delimitation in London Jamaican
215–228
J.K. Local, W.H.G. Wells and M. Sebba
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Pidgin and Creole German, Relexification and Biogrammar
229–240
Peter Mühlhäusler
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WH-phrases, Relative Clauses and Case Assignment in Krio
241–252
Dudley K. Nylander
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Rastafarian Language in St. Lucia and Barbados
253–263
Velma Pollard
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Urban Pidgin in Douala
265–269
Marie-Lorraine Pradelles de Latour
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Serial Verbs: Something New out of Africa
271–278
Mark Sebba
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Jamaican Creole or Standard Jamaican English? Teacher Language in the Jamaican Context
279–290
Kathryn Shields
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The Development of Morphosyntax in Sri Lanka Portuguese
291–301
Ian R. Smith
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Coining of Words in Pidgins/creoles: A Case Study of Naga Pidgin
303–309
M.V. Sreedhar
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Investigating the Language Use of a British Black Community: An Initial Report
311–321
David Sutcliffe
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Factors Affecting Error Rate in Written English in an English Creole Context: Residence and School Type
323–333
Lise Winer
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