Valerie Youssef
Biographic Data
| ID | 183341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Youssef |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Youssef |
| SIGNATURE | YOUSSEF V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing Rage
Human interaction has always been marked by the complex, pervasive dynamic of rage and violence. This dynamic and the ubiquitous social problems that are its consequence have long engaged scholars. In Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence through Caribbean Discourse, Paula Morgan and Valerie Youssef apply strategies of linguistic and literary analysis to a range of real-life and fictional discourses on the theme of violence. Their work explores the mu…
‘Is English we speaking’
Some notes and comments on the English usage of Trinidad and Tobago. The paper argues that for Trinidadians to think in terms of speaking and owning ‘only’ their distinctive Creole, setting aside their long-established indigenous variety of Standard English as if not really their own, is a complex distortion of social and linguistic reality. The reality has emerged from social, cultural, and psychological factors present in the Anglophone Caribbe…
How Perfect Is Perfective Marking? An Analysis of Terminological Problems in the Description of Some Tense-aspect Categories in Creoles
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Issues of Bilingual Education in the Caribbean
The language situations in the Caribbean have long posed challenges for language education and, despite a number of enlightened proposals for bilingual education (cf. most recently Craig (1999)), none have been implemented on a large scale. A major challenge has been the low status of the Creole languages and societal unwillingness to admit these languages into the classroom. In Haiti, 90% of the population remains monolingual in a basilectal Cre…
“If I Was Your Wife, I Would Tell you …”
This article discusses a series of telephone interactions between callers with AIDS-related queries and listeners on a telephone response hot line in Trinidad and Tobago. The calls were analyzed according to established criteria for medical and telephone discourse with specific focus on the communication process and its outcome and effectiveness. It was found that success was highest on single-sex calls in which empathy between caller and listene…
Age-grading in the Anglophone Creole of Tobago
This study investigates the range of Creole and Standard English tense-aspect markers used by men and women at two age levels in the island of Tobago in the southern Caribbean. People aged 70 and over, and people aged 16-21 were compared on critical social variables and interviews were designed to tap their full range of communicative competence. The educated young people evidenced low usage of Standard English relative to the older group. In add…
Confronting Local Dialect and Culture Issues in the EFL Classroom
This article describes the experience of preparing Venezuelan EFL students at Lower Intermediate level to perform a Trinidadian dialect play before an international audience during a short course. The exercise was used to teach local culture in relation to the native culture of the students and also to teach functional and grammatical relations between the local Standard and Creole varieties. It also served to enhance a focus on pronunciation, st…
Grounding via tense-aspect in Tobagonian Creole
This paper explicates the opposition between Ø and -ed as tense–aspect markers of foregrounding and backgrounding respectively in Tobagonian Creole in the transition space between the mesolectal and acrolectal varieties in that system, where -ed replaces basilectal bin and mesolectal did as a remote-past marker. Most consistency of explication can be achieved for these markers via their use as discourse strategies, since Ø has been variously asso…
Varilingualism
There is a need for a label which will adequately describe the communicative competence acquired by speakers who learn to mix their codes in speech communities like those of Trinidad and Tobago. They mix according to community-based parameters for use of the codes in contact and according to their relative exposure to different admixtures of those codes. In a situation of leaking diglossia, the stylistic and social dimensions of code-mixing are b…
Tense-Aspect in Tobagonian English
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'To be or not to be'
This study examines the development of copula as main verb for three children exposed to Trinidad Creole (TC) and Standard English (SE) in differing proportions. There is conflict between the systems in contact in this area because, in the TC system, copula is realized as zero with adjectival and locative predicates. Hence children have to acquire a form which is, on occasion, not there. In these circumstances it was found that the children displ…
Marking Solidarity Across the Trinidad Speech Community
This paper discusses the distribution and functions of Trinidad Creole (TC) set-marking tag an ting in a series of medical counselling sessions in Trinidad. It is the first examination of a discourse feature within Caribbean sociolinguistic complexes, where there has previously been an emphasis on the study of phonological and morphosyntactic variation. In an ting's double representation of solidarity, first as a Creole marker and second as a dis…
Children's linguistic choices
To reexamine the explanation of stylistic variation given by Bell 1984, this article considers Bell's audience design factors in relation to those associated with the domains described by Fishman 1972. Data collected longitudinally from three preschool children in the Trinidad sociolinguistic complex were examined for variation in production of Trinidad Creole and Standard English verb forms. All three children exhibited stylistic variation; but …
Normative expectations for medical talk
‘Can I put – I want a slippers to put on’
This paper concerns the development of semi-modal want / want to , and modals may, can and could in two Trinidadian children, whose Verb Phrase development was studied in naturalistic settings, between the ages of 2;3 and 4;1, and 2;4 and 4;9. The similarities and differences in development between the two are important for underlining a number of key factors in the acquisition process. Accepting the salience of requests/demands in early child la…
Variation as a feature of language acquisition in the Trinidad context
In a longitudinal acquisition study of the development of the verb phrase (VP), a Trinidadian child who was exposed to both Standard English (SE) and Trinidadian English-lexicon Creole (TC) was found to use the verb forms of each system differentially according to addressee, discourse mode, semantic intent, and grammatical factors. Systematic variation was first recorded at age 2;7 and continued to develop through to the end of the study at age 4…
The Acquisition of Varilingual Competence
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The early development of perfect aspect
In a longitudinal study concerned to assess Verb Phrase (VP) development in three Trinidadian children, adverbials were found to be crucial in delineating specific areas of semantic intent, and to develop early (between ages 2;3 and 3;0). The children were studied over a two-year period, from the onset of morphological marking on the verb, and were recorded two to four hours per month, in their home environments, with a variety of addressees. Two…
On the confirmation of bioprograms
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The language bioprogram hypothesis revisited
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Marking Solidarity Across the Trinidad Speech Community
This paper discusses the distribution and functions of Trinidad Creole (TC) set-marking tag an ting in a series of medical counselling sessions in Trinidad. It is the first examination of a discourse feature within Caribbean sociolinguistic complexes, where there has previously been an emphasis on the study of phonological and morphosyntactic variation. In an ting's double representation of solidarity, first as a Creole marker and second as a dis…
Children's linguistic choices
To reexamine the explanation of stylistic variation given by Bell 1984, this article considers Bell's audience design factors in relation to those associated with the domains described by Fishman 1972. Data collected longitudinally from three preschool children in the Trinidad sociolinguistic complex were examined for variation in production of Trinidad Creole and Standard English verb forms. All three children exhibited stylistic variation; but …
Variation as a feature of language acquisition in the Trinidad context
In a longitudinal acquisition study of the development of the verb phrase (VP), a Trinidadian child who was exposed to both Standard English (SE) and Trinidadian English-lexicon Creole (TC) was found to use the verb forms of each system differentially according to addressee, discourse mode, semantic intent, and grammatical factors. Systematic variation was first recorded at age 2;7 and continued to develop through to the end of the study at age 4…
Grounding via tense-aspect in Tobagonian Creole
This paper explicates the opposition between Ø and -ed as tense–aspect markers of foregrounding and backgrounding respectively in Tobagonian Creole in the transition space between the mesolectal and acrolectal varieties in that system, where -ed replaces basilectal bin and mesolectal did as a remote-past marker. Most consistency of explication can be achieved for these markers via their use as discourse strategies, since Ø has been variously asso…
Normative expectations for medical talk
The Acquisition of Varilingual Competence
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Age-grading in the Anglophone Creole of Tobago
This study investigates the range of Creole and Standard English tense-aspect markers used by men and women at two age levels in the island of Tobago in the southern Caribbean. People aged 70 and over, and people aged 16-21 were compared on critical social variables and interviews were designed to tap their full range of communicative competence. The educated young people evidenced low usage of Standard English relative to the older group. In add…
Confronting Local Dialect and Culture Issues in the EFL Classroom
This article describes the experience of preparing Venezuelan EFL students at Lower Intermediate level to perform a Trinidadian dialect play before an international audience during a short course. The exercise was used to teach local culture in relation to the native culture of the students and also to teach functional and grammatical relations between the local Standard and Creole varieties. It also served to enhance a focus on pronunciation, st…
The language bioprogram hypothesis revisited
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The early development of perfect aspect
In a longitudinal study concerned to assess Verb Phrase (VP) development in three Trinidadian children, adverbials were found to be crucial in delineating specific areas of semantic intent, and to develop early (between ages 2;3 and 3;0). The children were studied over a two-year period, from the onset of morphological marking on the verb, and were recorded two to four hours per month, in their home environments, with a variety of addressees. Two…
On the confirmation of bioprograms
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
‘Can I put – I want a slippers to put on’
This paper concerns the development of semi-modal want / want to , and modals may, can and could in two Trinidadian children, whose Verb Phrase development was studied in naturalistic settings, between the ages of 2;3 and 4;1, and 2;4 and 4;9. The similarities and differences in development between the two are important for underlining a number of key factors in the acquisition process. Accepting the salience of requests/demands in early child la…
Variation as a feature of language acquisition in the Trinidad context
In a longitudinal acquisition study of the development of the verb phrase (VP), a Trinidadian child who was exposed to both Standard English (SE) and Trinidadian English-lexicon Creole (TC) was found to use the verb forms of each system differentially according to addressee, discourse mode, semantic intent, and grammatical factors. Systematic variation was first recorded at age 2;7 and continued to develop through to the end of the study at age 4…
The Acquisition of Varilingual Competence
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Normative expectations for medical talk
Marking Solidarity Across the Trinidad Speech Community
This paper discusses the distribution and functions of Trinidad Creole (TC) set-marking tag an ting in a series of medical counselling sessions in Trinidad. It is the first examination of a discourse feature within Caribbean sociolinguistic complexes, where there has previously been an emphasis on the study of phonological and morphosyntactic variation. In an ting's double representation of solidarity, first as a Creole marker and second as a dis…
Children's linguistic choices
To reexamine the explanation of stylistic variation given by Bell 1984, this article considers Bell's audience design factors in relation to those associated with the domains described by Fishman 1972. Data collected longitudinally from three preschool children in the Trinidad sociolinguistic complex were examined for variation in production of Trinidad Creole and Standard English verb forms. All three children exhibited stylistic variation; but …
'To be or not to be'
This study examines the development of copula as main verb for three children exposed to Trinidad Creole (TC) and Standard English (SE) in differing proportions. There is conflict between the systems in contact in this area because, in the TC system, copula is realized as zero with adjectival and locative predicates. Hence children have to acquire a form which is, on occasion, not there. In these circumstances it was found that the children displ…
Tense-Aspect in Tobagonian English
Preview this article: Tense-Aspect in Tobagonian English: A Dynamic Transitional System, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eww.16.2.03you-1.gif
Varilingualism
There is a need for a label which will adequately describe the communicative competence acquired by speakers who learn to mix their codes in speech communities like those of Trinidad and Tobago. They mix according to community-based parameters for use of the codes in contact and according to their relative exposure to different admixtures of those codes. In a situation of leaking diglossia, the stylistic and social dimensions of code-mixing are b…
Confronting Local Dialect and Culture Issues in the EFL Classroom
This article describes the experience of preparing Venezuelan EFL students at Lower Intermediate level to perform a Trinidadian dialect play before an international audience during a short course. The exercise was used to teach local culture in relation to the native culture of the students and also to teach functional and grammatical relations between the local Standard and Creole varieties. It also served to enhance a focus on pronunciation, st…
Grounding via tense-aspect in Tobagonian Creole
This paper explicates the opposition between Ø and -ed as tense–aspect markers of foregrounding and backgrounding respectively in Tobagonian Creole in the transition space between the mesolectal and acrolectal varieties in that system, where -ed replaces basilectal bin and mesolectal did as a remote-past marker. Most consistency of explication can be achieved for these markers via their use as discourse strategies, since Ø has been variously asso…
“If I Was Your Wife, I Would Tell you …”
This article discusses a series of telephone interactions between callers with AIDS-related queries and listeners on a telephone response hot line in Trinidad and Tobago. The calls were analyzed according to established criteria for medical and telephone discourse with specific focus on the communication process and its outcome and effectiveness. It was found that success was highest on single-sex calls in which empathy between caller and listene…
Age-grading in the Anglophone Creole of Tobago
This study investigates the range of Creole and Standard English tense-aspect markers used by men and women at two age levels in the island of Tobago in the southern Caribbean. People aged 70 and over, and people aged 16-21 were compared on critical social variables and interviews were designed to tap their full range of communicative competence. The educated young people evidenced low usage of Standard English relative to the older group. In add…
Issues of Bilingual Education in the Caribbean
The language situations in the Caribbean have long posed challenges for language education and, despite a number of enlightened proposals for bilingual education (cf. most recently Craig (1999)), none have been implemented on a large scale. A major challenge has been the low status of the Creole languages and societal unwillingness to admit these languages into the classroom. In Haiti, 90% of the population remains monolingual in a basilectal Cre…
How Perfect Is Perfective Marking? An Analysis of Terminological Problems in the Description of Some Tense-aspect Categories in Creoles
Preview this article: How Perfect Is Perfective Marking? An Analysis of Terminological Problems in the Description of SomeTense-aspect Categories in Creoles, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.18.1.03you-1.gif
‘Is English we speaking’
Some notes and comments on the English usage of Trinidad and Tobago. The paper argues that for Trinidadians to think in terms of speaking and owning ‘only’ their distinctive Creole, setting aside their long-established indigenous variety of Standard English as if not really their own, is a complex distortion of social and linguistic reality. The reality has emerged from social, cultural, and psychological factors present in the Anglophone Caribbe…
Writing Rage
Human interaction has always been marked by the complex, pervasive dynamic of rage and violence. This dynamic and the ubiquitous social problems that are its consequence have long engaged scholars. In Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence through Caribbean Discourse, Paula Morgan and Valerie Youssef apply strategies of linguistic and literary analysis to a range of real-life and fictional discourses on the theme of violence. Their work explores the mu…
Linguistics (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Creole language (8 works) · History (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works)