Informal orthographies, informal ideologies spelling and code switching in British Creole
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6140130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Sebba (0000-0001-5607-9561, Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-85 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-9712 • E-ISSN: 2179-4790 |
| Publisher | Biblioteca Central da UNB (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26512/les.v2i1.2952 |
| OpenAlex | W2621273563 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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 Original writing is published from time to time (and we can assume that much unpublished writing goes on as well) using modified Standard English orthographies made up by the original writers.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 ideology of "subversion" of the Standard Orthography rather than subservience to it. Some proposals are made up for moving toward a norm for spelling British Creole
Creole language · English-based creole languages · Ideology · Language education · Linguistics · Modern language · Norm (philosophy · Orthography · Political science · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Spelling · Subversion · Variety (cybernetics · Writing system · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Law · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |