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The Iberia n challenge : creole languages beyond the plantation setting
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ISBN: 9788484899624 8484899624 9783954874972 3954874970 3954878941 Year: 2016 Publisher: Frankfurt : Vervuert,

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Creole languages lexified by Spanish and Portuguese have played a relatively small role in theories of creole genesis. This volume argues that there is not a priori reason to give English and French-based plantation creoles a preferential treatment, but shows that Iberian-based creoles demonstrate a diversity of complex circumstances that any overarching theory of creole genesis ought to take into account.

Creolization : history, ethnography, theory
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ISBN: 1315431327 1315431335 1598747606 9781598747607 1598742787 9781598742787 1598742795 9781598742794 9781315431338 9781315431307 9781315431314 1315431319 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Social scientists have used the term ""Creolization"" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However, the term has been under-theorized and tends to be used as a simple synonym for ""mixture"" or ""hybridity."" In this volume, by contrast, renowned scholars give the term historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place. Elucidating the concept in this way not only uncovers a remarkable history, it also re-opens the term for new theoretical use. It illuminates an ill-under

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