Phonology Meets Ideology: The Meaning of Orthographic Practices in British Creole  

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Sebba, Mark

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 22 no. 1 (1998), page 19-47.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper discusses the orthography of an unstandardised written language variety, the English-lexicon Creole used in Britain by people of Caribbean heritage. Examples are drawn from a corpus of written Creole produced in Britain by writers of Caribbean heritage. Orthography is viewed here as a set of practices engaged in by writers as they try to represent a language for which no conventional written representation exists. I argue that while the spelling of Creole is highly variable, writers are - perhaps unconsciously - choosing conventions which emphasise the differences between Creole and Standard English. I argue that orthography, like literacy after Street (1984), can be approached in either of two ways: on the basis of an "autonomous" model .Of an "ideological" one, and that it is only by taking an ideological approach to orthography that we can understand the orthographic practices of contemporary British Creole writers.

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