Jamaican Creole Syntax
Jamaican Creole Syntax by B. L. Bailey, published by Cambridge University Press on July 16, 2009, is a significant work that delves into the Jamaican Creole language. This edition, comprising 184 pages, presents an in-depth examination of the language’s origins and its impact on English teaching in Jamaica. Bailey, a native Jamaican, draws from her personal experiences in both learning and teaching English, addressing the challenges posed by language interference in contact situations.
Readers will find a thorough analysis of Jamaican Creole’s phonology, morphology, and sentence structure, along with discussions on the educational implications of recognizing Creole as a legitimate language rather than merely a dialect. The book also explores the social ramifications of this perspective, contributing to the understanding of Creole dialects and their role in language education. This scholarly work serves as a foundational text for those interested in linguistics and the dynamics of language in educational contexts.
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Originally published in 1966, Beryl Loftman Bailey’s book was one of the first on the Jamaican Creole language, its origins and its influence on the teaching of English in Jamaica. A native Jamaican herself, Bailey’s personal experience of both learning and later teaching English in the Caribbean was a springboard to her interest in the problems of language interference in contact situations. She challenged a notion prevalent throughout English teachers in Caribbean at the time that Creole was a ‘dialect’ not a language and therefore need not be considered in teaching. The social implications of this view are also explored. Bailey’s detailed analysis of Jamaican Creole phonology, morphology, kernel sentence structure and simple and double-based transformations provided valuable insights into the foundations of the language and its educational implications.
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