Mark Sebba
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 731862 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Sebba |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Sebba |
| FIRMA | SEBBA M |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5607-9561 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Home language’, ‘Main Language’ or no language
Bilingual newspapers as sites of multilingual practice
This paper discusses multilingualism in three publications aimed at bilingual communities in Britain: speakers of Russian, Greek and Tagalog. Despite the fact that the editorial content in such publications is almost completely monolingual, they are sites rich in multilingual written practices. The focus here is on display advertisements, which make up a large part of these publications. The paper looks at what language mixing practices are prese…
Commentary
Bann, Jennifer John Corbett
Named into being? Language questions and the politics of Scots in the 2011 census in Scotland
Where censuses are concerned, politics and ideology are pervasive. The 2011 census in Scotland (a semi-autonomous part of the United Kingdom) was the first to ask a question about Scots, a close relative of English, which is historically the vernacular in many parts of Scotland. While at one time Scots had high status as the national language of Scotland, it is now widely regarded as a 'dialect' of English, and for many people it has associations…
Awkward questions
The 2011 Census in England broke new ground, as a question about language had never previously been asked. After stakeholder consultations and a series of trials, the census authority decided on two questions based on earlier censuses in the USA: one about the respondent’s ‘main language’ and another about proficiency in English. This paper provides a critique of the census questions, showing how the pressure to produce questions which were strai…
English a foreign tongue
The 2011 UK Census was the first ever to ask a question about language in England. The period during which the census was planned coincided with a period of intense politicisation of the language issue, which had previously not been a major point of controversy. The census results showed that 98.3% of the adult population either spoke English as their ‘main language’, or could speak it well or very well. In 4% of households no adults spoke Englis…
Serial Verb Constructions
Iconisation, attribution and branding in orthography
This paper discusses three processes relating to the social meaning of scripts and orthographies, all of which are potentially mediated by the role of script-as-image. One of these processes, iconisation , was introduced to the field by Irvine and Gal (2000) and is widely known. Attribution is a process which precedes iconisation, whereby a group of people associate a linguistic feature or language-related practice with a group of people who (sup…
Multilingualism in written discourse
The study of spoken discourse in a mixture of languages, commonly called ‘conversational code-switching’, has a history of several decades, and a number of well-developed theories compete to account for it. A number of researchers have studied multilingual written discourse from different perspectives, but most of these studies have focussed on interactive genres that resemble conversation. Only a few studies have offered analyses of multilingual…
The visual construction of language hierarchy
This paper analyses the way in which the text displayed on bilingual and multilingual currency (banknotes and coins) and stamps constructs and reproduces linguistic hierarchies, reflecting the relative status of the languages within the issuing country. The paper briefly discusses the selection of languages which appear on stamps and money, which is nearly always in accordance with the dominant language ideologies. It then goes on to show how the…
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
Researching and Theorising Multilingual Texts
To say that written multilingual discourse is under-researched is an understatement. Since the 1970s a large amount of research in the fi eld of bilingualism has focussed on the mixing of languages in discourse, in particular code-switching and related phenomena, variously called codemixing, code-shifting, language alternation or language interaction. Most of this work has studied spontaneously produced spoken data, usually described as ‘conversa…
Informal orthographies, informal ideologies spelling and code switching in British Creole
This paper is concemed with the written representation of British Creole (a local British variety of Jamaican Creole) which has no standard orthography. Original writing is published from time to time (and we can assume that much unpublished writing goes on as well) using modified Standard English orthographies made up by the original writers. The paper examines what writers actually do when they write Creole and links this to an implicit ideolog…
Spelling and Society
Spelling matters to people. In America and Britain every day, members of the public write to the media on spelling issues, and take part in spelling contests. In Germany, a reform of the spelling system has provoked a constitutional crisis; in Galicia, a 'war of orthographies' parallels an intense public debate on national identity; on walls, bridges and trains globally, PUNX and ANARKISTS proclaim their identities orthographically. The way we sp…
Ideology and alphabets in the former USSR
In 2002 the Russian parliament passed a law requiring all official languages within the Russian Federation to use the Cyrillic alphabet. The legislation caused great controversy and anger in some quarters, especially in Tatarstan, the Russian republic whose attempt to romanise the script for the Tatar language provoked the new law. This paper examines the background to these recent events in the former Soviet Union, showing how they provide a con…
Spelling rebellion
“Global” and “Local” identities in the discourses of British-born Caribbeans
British Caribbeans manifest both a “global” and a “local” identity through complex language behavior including codeswitching. It is the Creole which most connects “globally” — to other speakers of Creole, to the British youth culture which now accepts Creole/patois as an element, and to the world-wide Black music culture. Meanwhile “English” for black speakers is more likely to mean a local variety of English, for example, London, Birmingham, or …
The Lides Coding Manual
Orthography and ideology
This paper concerns the orthography of Sranan, an English-lexicon creole spoken by a majority of the population in Surinam (South America), which also has many speakers in the Netherlands. Sranan has a long written tradition and has had two official orthographies, but it is still often written informally using conventions largely derived from Dutch. Social and ideological issues always accompany the development of an orthography but are often vie…
Towards standardizing and sharing bilingual data
We describe a project (the LIPPS project) whose purpose is to set up a computerized database of bilingual texts to be used by researchers in the field of “language interaction” (i.e., codeswitching, borrowing, and other outcomes of contact between varieties). Current work includes an adaptation of the CHILDES system(MacWhinney,1995) to take account of the different needs of researchers in this area, for example, solving the problems of distinguis…
A Congruence Approach to the Syntax of Codeswitching
Hypotheses about the syntax of codeswitching thus far have for the most part not taken into account such factors as the nature of bilingualism in the community where the switching takes place, the relative status of the languages, the nature of bilingualism in the community and other aspects of the social context. This paper argues that an adequate theory of codeswitching syntax is one where such factors are held to be relevant, so that the actua…
Phonology Meets Ideology
Wo Phonologie und Ideologie einander treffen: die Bedeutung onthographischer Konventionen im Britischen Kreol Dieses Artikel behandelt die Orthographie einer unstandardisierten schriftlichen Sprachvarietät, des Kreol, mit primär Englischem Lexikon, das von Britishen Schriftstellern mit karibischen Vorfahren verwendet wird. Die Beispiele stammen von einem Korpus schriftlichen Kreols, der von in Großbritannien lebenden Schriftstellern mit karibisch…
How do you spell Patwa? 1
London Jamaican
Phonology for conversation
Comparative Afro-American
Phonology Meets Ideology
Wo Phonologie und Ideologie einander treffen: die Bedeutung onthographischer Konventionen im Britischen Kreol Dieses Artikel behandelt die Orthographie einer unstandardisierten schriftlichen Sprachvarietät, des Kreol, mit primär Englischem Lexikon, das von Britishen Schriftstellern mit karibischen Vorfahren verwendet wird. Die Beispiele stammen von einem Korpus schriftlichen Kreols, der von in Großbritannien lebenden Schriftstellern mit karibisch…
Ideology and alphabets in the former USSR
In 2002 the Russian parliament passed a law requiring all official languages within the Russian Federation to use the Cyrillic alphabet. The legislation caused great controversy and anger in some quarters, especially in Tatarstan, the Russian republic whose attempt to romanise the script for the Tatar language provoked the new law. This paper examines the background to these recent events in the former Soviet Union, showing how they provide a con…
English a foreign tongue
The 2011 UK Census was the first ever to ask a question about language in England. The period during which the census was planned coincided with a period of intense politicisation of the language issue, which had previously not been a major point of controversy. The census results showed that 98.3% of the adult population either spoke English as their ‘main language’, or could speak it well or very well. In 4% of households no adults spoke Englis…
Orthography and ideology
This paper concerns the orthography of Sranan, an English-lexicon creole spoken by a majority of the population in Surinam (South America), which also has many speakers in the Netherlands. Sranan has a long written tradition and has had two official orthographies, but it is still often written informally using conventions largely derived from Dutch. Social and ideological issues always accompany the development of an orthography but are often vie…
Serial Verbs
The visual construction of language hierarchy
This paper analyses the way in which the text displayed on bilingual and multilingual currency (banknotes and coins) and stamps constructs and reproduces linguistic hierarchies, reflecting the relative status of the languages within the issuing country. The paper briefly discusses the selection of languages which appear on stamps and money, which is nearly always in accordance with the dominant language ideologies. It then goes on to show how the…
Home language’, ‘Main Language’ or no language
Named into being? Language questions and the politics of Scots in the 2011 census in Scotland
Where censuses are concerned, politics and ideology are pervasive. The 2011 census in Scotland (a semi-autonomous part of the United Kingdom) was the first to ask a question about Scots, a close relative of English, which is historically the vernacular in many parts of Scotland. While at one time Scots had high status as the national language of Scotland, it is now widely regarded as a 'dialect' of English, and for many people it has associations…
The -Ex Ending in Product Names
T HE ENDING -ex, which is common in English and international product names, is not a suffix in the usual sense (for reasons which will become clear), but its productivity seems to be established beyond doubt by the large number of names of products which can be found in any chemist's shop, drug store, supermarket, and many other types of shop: for example, Kleenex, Sinex, Earex, Coldrex, Amplex, Kynex, Vallex, Volex, Butrex, Aminex, Andrex, Spon…
You know what I mean? Agreement marking in British black English
Derivational regularities in a Creole lexicon
Comparative Afro-American
Books
Immigration rules: Interpretation and critique Lawrence Grant and Ian Martin, Immigration Law and Practice, The Cobden Trust, London, 1982. £18.00p. Race, politics and policing David Cowell, Trevor Jones and Jock Young, Policing the Riots, Junction Books, London, 1982. 172 pp. Robert Baldwin and Richard Kinsey, Police Powers and Politics, Quartet Books, London, 1982. 309 pp. Policing in Handsworth John Brown, Policing by Multi‐Racial Consent: The…
Books
A dictionary in the minimal sense of the word E. Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, 308 pp., £16.95 h.b. Racial harmony as a public good Michael Banton, Promoting Racial Harmony. Cambridge University Press, 1985, 141 pp., £5.95 p.b. ‘Locals’ and ‘foreigners’: anthropology in Battersea Sandra Wallman, Eight London Households, Tavistock Publications, London and New York, 1984, 232 pp., £14.00 h.b.…
Phonology for conversation
Adjectives and Copulas in Sranan Tongo
Some linguists regard predicate adjectives in Sranan and other creole languages as stative verbs, one argument being the absence of a copula before such adjectives. An analysis by Seuren, on the other hand, treats predicate adjectives as true adjectives in Sranan: an underlying copula fails to surface before them. This paper argues for an analysis which treats Sranan predicate adjectives as a type of stative verb, and accounts for the appearance …
Books
Post‐1970 Korean immigrants in the USA Won Moo Hurh and Kwang Chung Kim, Korean Immigrants in America: A Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, East Brunswick, 1984, 278 pp., £21.95 h.b. Muslims in Western Europe Muhammad Anwar and Roger Garaudy, Social and Cultural Perspectives on Muslims in Western Europe (Research Papers: Muslims in Europe No. 24), Centre for the Study of Islam …
The -Ex Ending in Product Names
T HE ENDING -ex, which is common in English and international product names, is not a suffix in the usual sense (for reasons which will become clear), but its productivity seems to be established beyond doubt by the large number of names of products which can be found in any chemist's shop, drug store, supermarket, and many other types of shop: for example, Kleenex, Sinex, Earex, Coldrex, Amplex, Kynex, Vallex, Volex, Butrex, Aminex, Andrex, Spon…
You know what I mean? Agreement marking in British black English
Books
Race, recruitment and organisational access, RICHARD JENKINS, Racism and Recruitment: Managers, Organisations and Equal Opportunity in the Labour Market, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 281 pp., £27.50, cloth. JON MILLER, Pathways in the Workplace: The Effects of Gender and Race on Access to Organisational Resources, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 114 pp., £19.50, cloth. The ethnography of language, ROGER HEWITT, White Talk Black Talk, Cambr…
Books
Shammit Saggar, Race and Politics in Britain, Hemel Hempstead: Prentice‐Hall, 1992, 236 pp., £9.95 p.b. Alexander DeConde, Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992, 270 pp., n.p., cloth Caroline Knowles, Race, Discourse and Labourism, London: Routledge, 1992, 206 pp., £40.00 h.b. Steven Fielding, Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880–1939, Buckingham: Open University Pres…
Serial Verbs
How do you spell Patwa? 1
London Jamaican
A Congruence Approach to the Syntax of Codeswitching
Hypotheses about the syntax of codeswitching thus far have for the most part not taken into account such factors as the nature of bilingualism in the community where the switching takes place, the relative status of the languages, the nature of bilingualism in the community and other aspects of the social context. This paper argues that an adequate theory of codeswitching syntax is one where such factors are held to be relevant, so that the actua…
Phonology Meets Ideology
Wo Phonologie und Ideologie einander treffen: die Bedeutung onthographischer Konventionen im Britischen Kreol Dieses Artikel behandelt die Orthographie einer unstandardisierten schriftlichen Sprachvarietät, des Kreol, mit primär Englischem Lexikon, das von Britishen Schriftstellern mit karibischen Vorfahren verwendet wird. Die Beispiele stammen von einem Korpus schriftlichen Kreols, der von in Großbritannien lebenden Schriftstellern mit karibisch…
Towards standardizing and sharing bilingual data
We describe a project (the LIPPS project) whose purpose is to set up a computerized database of bilingual texts to be used by researchers in the field of “language interaction” (i.e., codeswitching, borrowing, and other outcomes of contact between varieties). Current work includes an adaptation of the CHILDES system(MacWhinney,1995) to take account of the different needs of researchers in this area, for example, solving the problems of distinguis…
The Lides Coding Manual
Orthography and ideology
This paper concerns the orthography of Sranan, an English-lexicon creole spoken by a majority of the population in Surinam (South America), which also has many speakers in the Netherlands. Sranan has a long written tradition and has had two official orthographies, but it is still often written informally using conventions largely derived from Dutch. Social and ideological issues always accompany the development of an orthography but are often vie…
“Global” and “Local” identities in the discourses of British-born Caribbeans
British Caribbeans manifest both a “global” and a “local” identity through complex language behavior including codeswitching. It is the Creole which most connects “globally” — to other speakers of Creole, to the British youth culture which now accepts Creole/patois as an element, and to the world-wide Black music culture. Meanwhile “English” for black speakers is more likely to mean a local variety of English, for example, London, Birmingham, or …
Spelling rebellion
Ideology and alphabets in the former USSR
In 2002 the Russian parliament passed a law requiring all official languages within the Russian Federation to use the Cyrillic alphabet. The legislation caused great controversy and anger in some quarters, especially in Tatarstan, the Russian republic whose attempt to romanise the script for the Tatar language provoked the new law. This paper examines the background to these recent events in the former Soviet Union, showing how they provide a con…
Spelling and Society
Spelling matters to people. In America and Britain every day, members of the public write to the media on spelling issues, and take part in spelling contests. In Germany, a reform of the spelling system has provoked a constitutional crisis; in Galicia, a 'war of orthographies' parallels an intense public debate on national identity; on walls, bridges and trains globally, PUNX and ANARKISTS proclaim their identities orthographically. The way we sp…
Informal orthographies, informal ideologies spelling and code switching in British Creole
This paper is concemed with the written representation of British Creole (a local British variety of Jamaican Creole) which has no standard orthography. Original writing is published from time to time (and we can assume that much unpublished writing goes on as well) using modified Standard English orthographies made up by the original writers. The paper examines what writers actually do when they write Creole and links this to an implicit ideolog…
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
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