Archive for January 30th, 2008
Discuss the arguments for and against having primary and/or secondary education through the medium of a specific pidgin or creole (for example Tok Pisin or Sranan). Make sure you are clear about who would benefit or be disadvantaged in each case.
In class, we talked about recreolisation and in particular, we looked at London Jamaican. As indicated, the phenomenon of recreolisation cannot be understood independently from an awareness of the social context surrounding the recreolisation. What type of motivations can you imagine, would account for the ‘White Creole Speaker’?
What can you say about the following: Bickerton’s Language Bioprogram Hypothesis Explain the theories between abrupt and gradual creolisation. You could briefly explain the Gradualist Hypothesis
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