YPL1 - Issue 11

Issue 11 (July 1984)

Papers from the York Creole Conference, September 24–27 1983

Editors: Mark Sebba and Loreto Todd

Introduction

5–7

R.B. Le Page

Social Networks and Urban New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin)

9–18

Jean Aitchison

The Significance of Agglutinated French Articles in the Creole Languages of the Indian Ocean and Elsewhere

19–29

Philip Baker

Linguistic Shift – Urban Creoles and the Black Child in European Inner City Schools

31–38

Petronella Breinburg

Abstract

This paper explores the hypotehsis that there is a linguistic shift in Language (dialect) of young black people in the inner cities of Europe. This shift is from the speech pattern of the parents, who are Creole speakers, to that of the lower working class indigenous population, and not that of the standard language indigenous population desired by the schools. There is also a movement towards a new form of the language of young black people. This new language I shall refer to as Urban Creole. There is also bi-dialectalism with the speaker moving from one speech form to another, depending on various factors. The main argument in this paper, however, is that the shift which is taking place is from Caribbean Creoles to local non-standard white speech. Generally speaking the items involved in this linguistic shift appear to be basically Vocabulary (lexical items in relation to Semantic), idiomatic expression and assimilations. The implication of this shift in relation to Education is a crucial one, since both parents and teachers pressurise the speaker into speaking what is called 'proper English' (rejecting so called 'backyard talk') and praise the speaker when a shift from the parents' speech has taken place. How much are teachers and parents aware that this 'proper English' they so approve of and applaud is nothing but the low status speech of the lower working class indigenous population, which has itself for many years been considered a handicap in Education. This paper is purely descriptive and represents work in progress and does not come to a conclusion. 

Instrumental in Saramaccan

39–50

Francis Byrne

Le pidgin bichelamar avant et après l'independance de Vanuatu (cas d'une dépidginisation avant créolisation)

51–61

Jean-Michel Charpentier

Creole Language Standardisation in Guyana: Race, Class and Urban-rural Factors

63–73

Hubert Devonish

The Linguistic Status of British Sign Language

75–82

Viv Edwards and Paddy Ladd

A Community-based Approach to the Provenance of Urban Guyanese Creole

83–94

Walter F. Edwards

The Acquisition of Creole by Urban and Rural Black Caribs in Belize

95–106

Geneviève Escure

Fanakalo: A Pidgin Caught in a Crisis

107–116

L. Ivens Ferraz

Code-switched Discourse in Strasbourg

117–122

Penelope Garner-Chloros

Evidence against an Anterior Tense System in Guyanese and Jamaican Creoles

123–129

Kean Gibson

The First Systematic Survey of the World's Pidgins and Creoles: Hugo Schuchardt, 1882-1885

131–140

Glenn G. Gilbert

Foreigner Talk: A Conversation-analysis Approach

141–152

Edith Harding

Eye-witnessing Pidginization? Structural and Sociolinguistic Aspects of German and Turkish Foreigner Talk

153–166

Volker Hinnenkamp

A Language of Sophiatown, Alexandra and Soweto

167–180

Tore Janson

Aspects of the Morphology of English-derived Words in Sierra Leone Krio

181–190

Frederick C.V. Jones

Expedient and Orientational Language Mixing in Hong Kong

191–201

Kang-Kwong Luke

Is There Anything like Decreolization? Some Ongoing Changes in Bissau Creole

203–214

Alain Kihm

Phonetic Aspects of Turn-delimitation in London Jamaican

215–228

J.K. Local, W.H.G. Wells and M. Sebba

Pidgin and Creole German, Relexification and Biogrammar

229–240

Peter Mühlhäusler

WH-phrases, Relative Clauses and Case Assignment in Krio

241–252

Dudley K. Nylander

Rastafarian Language in St. Lucia and Barbados

253–263

Velma Pollard

Urban Pidgin in Douala

265–269

Marie-Lorraine Pradelles de Latour

Serial Verbs: Something New out of Africa

271–278

Mark Sebba

Jamaican Creole or Standard Jamaican English? Teacher Language in the Jamaican Context

279–290

Kathryn Shields

The Development of Morphosyntax in Sri Lanka Portuguese

291–301

Ian R. Smith

Coining of Words in Pidgins/creoles: A Case Study of Naga Pidgin

303–309

M.V. Sreedhar

Investigating the Language Use of a British Black Community: An Initial Report

311–321

David Sutcliffe

Factors Affecting Error Rate in Written English in an English Creole Context: Residence and School Type

323–333

Lise Winer