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Voices of Our Ancestors - Language Contact in Early South Carolina (Paperback)
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Voices of Our Ancestors - Language Contact in Early South Carolina (Paperback)
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The first detailed linguistic history of South Carolina, with a new
preface by the authorIn Voices of Our Ancestors Patricia Causey
Nichols offers the first detailed linguistic history of South
Carolina as she explores the contacts between distinctive language
cultures in the colonial and early federal eras and studies the
dialects that evolved even as English became paramount in the
state. As language development reflects historical development,
Nichols's work also serves as a new avenue of inquiry into South
Carolina's social history from the epoch of Native American primacy
to the present day. Because Charleston was among the foremost
colonial American seaports, South Carolina experienced a diverse
influx of cultures and languages from the onset, drawing influences
from Native Americans, enslaved African Americans, and a plethora
of European peoples-Scots-Irish, English, Jewish, German, and
French Huguenot chief among them. Nichols tells the richly complex
story of language contact from groups representing three continents
and myriad cultures. In examining how South Carolinians spoke in
public and private we glean much about how they developed a common
culture while still honoring as best they could the heritages and
tongues of their ancestors. Nichols pays particular attention to
the development of the Gullah language among the coastal African
American peoples and the ways in which this language-and others of
South Carolina's early inhabitants-continues to influence the
communication and culture of the state's current populations.
Nichols's synthetic treatment of language history makes expert use
of primary source materials and is further enhanced by the author's
field research with Gullah-speaking African Americans and with
descendants of Native Americans, as well as her keen observation of
her own European American community in South Carolina. Through her
deft analysis of contemporary language variations and regional and
ethnic speech communities, she advances our understanding of how
diverse the South Carolina experience has been, from the lowcountry
to the upcountry and all points in between, and yet how the need to
communicate shared experiences and values has united the state's
population with a common meaningful language in which the diverse
voices of our ancestors can still be heard.
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