Essays about: "creole language"

Found 5 essays containing the words creole language.

1. 1. Colonialism in The Expanse : A study of otherness, diaspora, and language in The Expanse

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Ida Sundberg; [2024]
   Keywords : science fiction; postcolonialism; The Expanse; the Other; creole; diaspora;

   Abstract : This essay examined postcolonialism in the first two novels in The Expanse series, Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War. Using otherness, creole language, and diaspora, this essay argued that The Expanse used three groups to demonstrate postcolonialism, showing that the Belters are the oppressed group and Earth oppressors. READ MORE

3. 2. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Omagua–Kokama–Tupinambá

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Olof Lundgren; [2020]
   Keywords : Omagua; Kokama; Tupinambá; Tupí–Guaraní; historical linguistics; comparative linguistics; contact linguistics; phonology; creole languages; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Las lenguas omagua [omg] y kokama [cod] de la familia tupí–guaraní constituyen ejemplos interesantes de contacto lingüístico en Amazonia. Esto es evidente de su léxico que es mayormente tupí–guaraní, con un gran porcentaje de formas no-tupí–guaraní, y la gramática, que es muy distinta de otras lenguas tupí–guaraní. READ MORE

4. 3. Complex Creoles? : A corpus-based study of the different functions ofthe progressive particles a, de and gwain inJamaican Creole

   University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

   Author : Ida Nordin; [2013]
   Keywords : progressive; creole language; grammar; Jamaica; aspect markers; complex; creole grammar; creole progressive;

   Abstract : This study shows how the different ways of expressing the progressive in Jamaican Creole,using the three aspect markers a, de and gwain, differ from each other. It is a corpus study thatshows that these three particles that are used have different other functions and meanings. READ MORE

5. 4. English Language Teachers’ Perception of their Role and Responsibility in three Secondary Schools in Jamaica

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Andreas Åberg; Jakob Waller; [2012]
   Keywords : literacy; orality; creole; standard Jamaican English; L1; L2; diglossic; bilingualism; identity; language ideology;

   Abstract : This descriptive research paper looks at English teaching in Jamaica, and examines what perceptions upper secondary school teachers have of the teaching mission, the teacher role and the responsibility that comes with the teacher profession. The paper also examines the teachers’ attitudes towards Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English and the relation between these two languages. READ MORE

6. 5. Learning in a language that isn't one's own : the case of Jamaica A Minor Field Study

   University essay from Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap

   Author : Tina Andersson; Carolina Eriksson; [2001]
   Keywords : Languages and linguistics; Jamaica; education; language; Pidgin; Creole; Språkvetenskap;

   Abstract : In this study, titled Learning in a language that isn't one's own - the case of Jamaica, our intention is to give a picture of what the language situation in Jamaica is like. English is the official language in Jamaica, but it is coexisting with Jamacian Creole, which is not admitted as a official language, but it is the language of the people. READ MORE