My main contribution to my groups resource website was the social context, Literature, and music of Guyanese creole. I gathered information on how the language is spoken throughout social gatherings, news media, Literature and music. I found my research to be interesting as well as informative. Below you will find the link to our site.

https://guyanesecreole.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

My main contribution to my groups resource website was the social context, Literature, and music of Guyanese creole. I gathered information on how the language is spoken throughout social gatherings, news media, Literature and music. I found my research to be interesting as well as informative. Below you will be able to find the link to our site.

 

https://guyanesecreole.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

For the first essay I’ve chosen to write about Belizean Creole English. The Belizean Creole variety is derived from West African slaves, coupled with English literature. Being that Belizean Creole came about by slaves communicating with each other, the Creole language was learned rather than taught in an institutional setting. Belizean Creole sparked an interest because of their culture, food, and different language varieties. While doing my research I realized how slightly difficult it was to find resources about the language. Many sources focused on the culture rather than the actual language. Apics however is a very useful sight and gave the most information about Belizean Creole.

Academic sources:

Geneviève Escure. 2013. Belizean Creole structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/9, Accessed on 2018-02-17.)

Lavar Manuel “My Belize” New York Press, 2006.

Eltringham, Peter. The Rough guide to Belize. Penguin, 2010

 

PS: I’m not quite sure how to add pictures! Next class someone be oh so kind to show me!:)

Jargon

1. The term “jargon” refers to any in-group or specialized language used by small groups of like-minded individuals. This terminology is usually specialized to the function of the group, and will be used by and among group members as a sign of belonging, status, and for keeping out outsiders.

Source: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/608/

2. Jargon, in colonial history, an unstable rudimentary hybrid language used as a means of communication between persons having no other language in common. Although the term was long synonymous with pidgin—as can be seen by the use of jargon in the names of such pidgins as Chinook Jargon and Mobilian Jargon—in the 1980s some linguists began restricting its use to denote pre-pidgins, or early developmental forms of pidgins. No linguists more commonly define jargon as the technical or specialized parlance of a specific social or occupational group such as physicians or lawyers. Jargon has also historically been defined as gibberish or as an outlandish, unintelligible, barbarous, debased language; in this meaning it is similar to patois and carries negative connotations.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/jargon-linguistics

Lingua franca

1. The original Lingua Franca was a stabilized pidgin, i.e., a contact language
developed spontaneously in order to bridge language barriers with a simple
grammar and a lexicon confined to the expression of only the notions needed for the communication goals of the participants, often merchants.

Source: On the Conceptual History of the Term Lingua Franca Cyril Brosch, Leipzig University.

2. A lingua franca is a language or mixture of languages used as a medium of communication by people whose native languages are different. Also known as a trade language, contact language, international language, and global language.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-lingua-franca-1691237

Inflectional morphology

1. Inflectional morphology is the study of the processes (such as affixation and vowel change) that distinguish the forms of words in certain grammatical categories.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/inflectional-morphology-words-1691065

2. In terms of both form and meaning, inflectional morphology occupies an unusual position in language, teetering on the margins between lexicon and syntax in apparent defiance of definition. In most languages inflectional morphology marks relations such as person, number, case, gender, possession, tense, aspect, and mood, serving as an essential grammatical glue holding the relationships of constructions together. Yet in some languages inflectional morphology is minimal or may not exist at all.

Source: https://www.inflectmorphjanda/topic/inflectional-morphology-words

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The term jargon is defined as a group of people who use a form of language and/or special words by a particular group of people. I found this term to be the most compelling amongst others because it allows a specific group of people to have a sense of belonging. As well as having a form of communication to call their own. Even though it may be portrayed as barbaric and a debased language it is their unique way in which they communicate. The term Lingua Franca is defined interestingly as well because it is commonly used in every day life. Lingua Franca surfaces when English may not be someone’s first language but they find a common language to speak , which I find to be interesting.

Hey guys it’s Sheba! I’ll start off by giving you all a little background information on myself. I was born and raised in San Diego, California. I lived there for 9 years, then moved to longisland in ’03. I began college in Queensborough, and will be finishing at York College. Being that I will be a graduate this year I plan on traveling for a few months, then head on to receive my masters. My first language is English, therefore in my household everyone speaks English. However, I do speak a tad bit of Spanish here and there.