Classification and counter-classification of language on Saint Barthélemy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2912053
AutoresJon F Pressman (Bryn Mawr College, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume27
Fascículo4
Páginas459-494
Data de publicação1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404500020194
OpenAlexW2090012087
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas34

This article analyzes the use of metapragmatic description in the ethnoclassification of language by native speakers on the Franco-Antillean island of Saint Barthélemy. A prevalent technique for metapragmatic description is facilitated by the differential formation of honorific registers in the island's indigenous languages, so that speakers essentialize honorific pronouns as tropes of whole languages and classify the languages in such terms. This process reflects the varied geolinguistic and generational attributes of these speakers, whose register or social-dialectal calculations are all based ultimately on folk ideologies of honorification. (Classification, language ideology, French Creole, metapragmatics, Caribbean sociolinguistics

Creole language · Honorific · Ideology · Indigenous · Language contact · Language ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Register (sociolinguistics) · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy