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Haitian Creole is the creole language with the largest number of
speakers: about ten million in Haiti and two million in diaspora
communities in North American, France, and the Caribbean, including
the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the French overseas departments.
Haitian Creole presents a comprehensive view of the structure and
development of Haitian Creole. It provides a detailed analysis of
the phonology and grammar of the language and points out key
differences between these two fundamental aspects of the language
and corresponding features of French, its original target language.
The book contains a detailed description of the productive
strategies of vocabulary development and deals with the origin of
Haitian Creole, as well as its relationship to the other
French-based creoles in Louisiana, the Caribbean, French Guiana,
and the Indian Ocean. A signal innovation with regard to other
descriptions of the language is the treatment of linguistic
variation, both in geographical dialects and variation as
determined by social factors, as well as the presentation of
earlier forms of Haitian Creole, as attested by texts from the
Colonial period. Another major contribution is the discussion of
language planning and related issues concerning the use of Haitian
Creole in education and its status relative to French, the other
officially recognized language of Haiti.
For courses in Elementary French. Building on the success of
earlier editions and anchored in the most current innovations in
language instruction, the Fourth Edition of Chez nous offers a
richly nuanced focus on the Francophone world through a highly
integrative and process-oriented approach to the development of
language skills that emphasizes the Five C's and is consistent with
the National Standards. The Fourth Edition Chez nous is a complete
elementary French program designed for use at colleges and
universities, over two or three terms or semesters. Using a careful
progression from skill-developing to skill-using activities and a
sophisticated treatment of Francophone culture, the text and its
full complement of supplementary materials help students develop
listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as well as
insights into other cultures by exposing them to authentic,
contemporary French and encouraging them to express themselves on a
variety of topics.
Leading specialists on Cajun French and Louisiana Creole examine
dialectology and sociolinguistics in this volume, the first
comprehensive treatment of the linguistic situation of francophone
Louisiana and its relation to the current development of French in
North America outside of Quebec. Topics discussed include: language
shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and
media in the maintenance of these languages and such language
planning initiatives as the CODOFIL program to revive the sue of
French in Louisiana. GBP/LISTGBP
CHRISTINA BRAIT PAULSTON There is an important difference between
merely experimental and genuine experiment. The one may be a
feeling for novelty, the other is rationally based on experience
seeking a better way. - Frank Lloyd Wright Wright was talking about
architecture, but the same difference can be applied to analyzing
the relationship between standard and vernacular languages in
bilingual education; surely we are also seeking a better way to
handle bilingual education based on experience. How rationally
based our efforts are, is another question. Works on this and
similar topics can at times become the scene for very emotional-and
very moving-presentations which sometimes are more utopian than
rational. One can perhaps call this a very 'rational' text, because
so few of the contributors are members of ethnic subordinate
groups. Am I suggesting that minority group members are less
rational? Of course not. I am suggesting that it is much easier to
be calm, objective and scholarly about the lot of others than about
your own. The most salient feature about the bilingual education of
vernacular speaking groups is the social and economic exploitation
of its members by the dominant group. The papers herein, treating
bilingual education from a psychological perspective, agree at
least on the issue that an understanding of the social and economic
factors underlying bilingual education is crucial for understanding
the psychological studies on bilingualism.
Haitian Creole is the creole language with the largest number of
speakers: about ten million in Haiti and two million in diaspora
communities in North American, France, and the Caribbean, including
the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the French overseas departments.
Haitian Creole presents a comprehensive view of the structure and
development of Haitian Creole. It provides a detailed analysis of
the phonology and grammar of the language and points out key
differences between these two fundamental aspects of the language
and corresponding features of French, its original target language.
The book contains a detailed description of the productive
strategies of vocabulary development and deals with the origin of
Haitian Creole, as well as its relationship to the other
French-based creoles in Louisiana, the Caribbean, French Guiana,
and the Indian Ocean. A signal innovation with regard to other
descriptions of the language is the treatment of linguistic
variation, both in geographical dialects and variation as
determined by social factors, as well as the presentation of
earlier forms of Haitian Creole, as attested by texts from the
Colonial period. Another major contribution is the discussion of
language planning and related issues concerning the use of Haitian
Creole in education and its status relative to French, the other
officially recognized language of Haiti.
Leading specialists on Cajun French and Louisiana Creole examine
dialectology and sociolinguistics in this volume, the first
comprehensive treatment of the linguistic situation of francophone
Louisiana and its relation to the current development of French in
North America outside of Quebec. Topics discussed include: language
shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and
media in the maintenance of these languages and such language
planning initiatives as the CODOFIL program to revive the sue of
French in Louisiana. GBP/LISTGBP
Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields
contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean
colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti's
declaration of independent statehood in 1804. Including essays on
the impact of colonial slavery on France, the United States, and
the French West Indies, this collection focuses on the events,
causes, and effects of violent slave rebellions that occurred in
Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. In one of the few
studies to examine the Caribbean revolts and their legacy from a
U.S. perspective, the contributors discuss the flight of island
refugees to the southern cities of New Orleans, Savannah,
Charleston, Norfolk, and Baltimore that branded the lower United
States as ""the extremity of Caribbean culture."" Based on official
records and public documents, historical research, literary works,
and personal accounts, these essays present a detailed view of the
lives of those who experienced this period of rebellion and change.
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