This is a week-by-week list of course readings for ENG 470. Course readings which are not directly linked here are likely under copyright, and instructions for finding those can be found in the private group.
Week 14: Tuesday 5/8 and Thursday 5/10.
(Tu 5/8) Ansaldo, Umberto. (2017) Creole complexity in sociolinguistic perspective. Language Sciences 60, 26-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2016.10.008 [not open access, but available on-campus at York]
Discussion leader: Marc
(Th 5/10) Parkvall, Mikael, Peter Bakker, & John H. McWhorter (in press) Creoles and sociolinguistic complexity: Response to Ansaldo. Language Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2017.10.001 [not open access, but available on-campus at York]
Discussion leader: Ileana
Week 13: Tuesday 5/1 and Thursday 5/3.
(Tu 5/1) Dawson, Hope. (2003) Defining the outcome of language contact: Old English and Old Norse. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics 57, Summer 2003, 40-57. https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/81021/WPL_57_Summer_2003_040.pdf [free access online]
Discussion leader: Melissa
(Th 5/3) Rickford, John (2015) Chapter 2: The Creole Origins Hypothesis. The Oxford handbook of African American Language, Sonja Lanehart, ed. Oxford University Press. http://www.johnrickford.com/portals/45/documents/papers/Rickford%202015a%20The%20Creole%20Origins%20Hypothesis.pdf [proofs on author’s website]
Discussion leader: Tasnia
(Th 5/3) Mufwene, Salikoko. (2015) Chapter 3: The Emergence of African American English. The Oxford handbook of African American Language, Sonja Lanehart, ed. Oxford University Press.
http://mufwene.uchicago.edu/publications/EMERGENCE%20OF%20AFRICAN%20AMERICAN%20ENGLISH%20-%20OHAAL%202015.pdf [proofs on author’s website]
Discussion leader: Jermaine
Week 12: Tuesday 4/24 and Thursday 4/26.
(Tu 4/24) Leung, Glenda Alicia E. (2009) Negotiation of Trinidadian identity in ragga soca music. World Englishes 28.4, 509-531. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-971X.2009.01609.x/abstract [not open access, but available on-campus at York]
Discussion leader: Walter
(Th 4/26) Rickford, John. (2014) Style shifting in a creole-speaking community. PAPIA: Revista Brasileira de Estudos do Contato Linguistico 24.1, 231-252. http://revistas.fflch.usp.br/papia/article/view/2192/1965 [open access]
Discussion leader: Marc
(Th 4/26) Salmon, William. (2015) Language ideology, Gender, and Varieties of Belizean Kriol. Journal of Black Studies 46.6, 605-625. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0021934715590407 [not open-access, but available on-campus at York]
Discussion leader: Jasmine
Week 11: Tuesday 4/17 and Thursday 4/19.
(Tu 4/17) Rickford, John. (1985) Standard and Non-Standard Language Attitudes in A Creole Continuum. In Language of Inequality, Nessa Wolfson & Joan Manes (eds.) Mouton, 145-159. http://www.johnrickford.com/portals/45/documents/papers/Rickford-1985d-Standard-and-Non-Standard-Language-Attitudes-in-a-Creole-Continuum.pdf [free on author’s website]
Discussion leader: Sanjida
(Th 4/19) Slade, Benjamin. (2017) Overstanding Idren: Special Features of Rastafari English Morphology. To appear in the Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages. http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002196 [pre-print free online]
Discussion leader: Melissa
Week 10: Tuesday 4/10 and Thursday 4/12.
(Tu 4/10) Bohmann, Axel. (2013) Nobody canna cross it: An interactional perspective on discourse in motion. The International Society for the Linguistics of English Richard M. Hogg Prize, 2013. https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/richard-m-hogg-prize [free access online]
Discussion leader: Ileana
(Th 4/12) Deuber, Dagmar & Lars Hinrichs. (2007) Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin. World Englishes 26.1, 22-47. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-971X.2007.00486.x/abstract [not open access, but available on-campus at York]
Discussion leader: Sheba
Week 9: Tuesday 3/27 and Thursday 3/29.
(Tu 3/27) Prater, Tzarina. (2015) “Look pon likkle chiney gal”: Tessane Chin, The Voice, and Digital Caribbean Subjects. Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 12.1, Article 11. https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol12/iss1/11 [open access, University of Miami Scholarly Repository]
Discussion Leader: Alisia
(Th 3/29) Heyd, Theresa. (2016) Narratives of belonging in the digital diaspora: Corpus approaches to a cultural concept. Open Linguistics 2.1 287-299. https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/opli.2016.2.issue-1/opli-2016-0013/opli-2016-0013.pdf [CC BY-NC-ND]
Discussion Leader: Tasnia
Week 8: Tuesday 3/20 and Thursday 3/22.
Short stories (for discussion Tuesday 3/20):
Ladoo, Harold Sonny. 1973. The Quiet Peasant. [not open-access, available in group under ‘files’.]
Rahim, Jennifer. 2002. Songster. Small Axe 6.1, 77-90. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/31851 [not open-access, but available on-campus at York]
Persaud, Sasenarine. 1998. Canada Geese and Apple Chatney. [not open-access, available in group under ‘files’.]
Article (for discussion Thursday 3/22):
Preston, Dennis. (1982) ‘Ritin’ Fowklower Daun ‘Rong: Folklorists’ Failures in Phonology. The Journal of American Folklore, 95.377, 304-326. https://www.jstor.org/stable/539912 [not open access, but available on-campus at York]
Discussion leader: Jermaine
Week 7: Tuesday 3/13 and Thursday 3/15
Short stories (for discussion Tuesday 3/13):
Senior, Olive (see reference from last week) – Do angels wear brassieres?
Lovelace, Earl. 1994. Joebell and America. Caribbean Beat Issue 10. http://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-10/earl-lovelaces-joebell-and-america#axzz59BZ0NvVO
Walrond, Eric. 1926. Drought. In Brown, Steward & John Wickham (eds.) The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. 1999. [not open-access, available in group under ‘files’]
Ellis, Zoila. 1988. The Waiting Room. In Brown, Stewart & John Wickham (eds.) The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. 1999. [not open-access, available in group under ‘files’]
Article (for discussion Thursday 3/15):
Sebba, Mark. 1996. Informal orthographies, informal ideologies: spelling and code-switching in British Creole. Cadernos de linguagem e sociedade 2.1. http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/les/article/view/1316
Discussion Leader (for Sebba): Sheba
Week 6: Tuesday 3/6 and Thursday 3/8.
Note: All readings are due for Tuesday as we will be attending a graduate school information session on Thursday.
Short stories:
Carew, Jan. 1985. Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek. New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, 7.4, 617-626. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40375685?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents [available through York campus library subscription from on-campus Internet connections]
Senior, Olive. 1986. Do angels wear brassieres? Kunapipi 8.2 http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol8/iss2/3/ [open access]
Antoni, Robert. 1996. A world of canes. Conjunctions:27 – The Archipelago: New Caribbean Writing. http://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/robert-antoni-c27 [free access online]
Article:
(Tu 3/6) Adamson, Lilian, and Cefas van Rossem. Creole literature. In Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken, and Norval Smith (eds.) Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction. John Benjamins. [not open-access, available in group under ‘files’]
Discussion leader (for Adamson and van Rossem): Sanjida
Week 5: Tuesday 2/27 and Thursday 3/1.
(Tu 2/27) Sebba, Mark. (1997c) – Chapter 7: Continuing contact: Life after creolisation. Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. St. Martin’s. [not open access, available in group under ‘Files’]
Discussion leader: Francesca
(Th 3/1) Siegel, Jason. (2010) Decreolization: A critical review. IULC Working Papers 10.3, 83-98. https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/wp/article/view/10-18A [open-access, unspecified license]
Discussion leader: Jasmine
Week 4: Thursday 2/22.
(Th 2/22) Muysken, Pieter. (2016) – Creole Languages. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. http://linguistics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-68 [free access online]
Discussion leader: Jasmine
(Th 2/22) Bickerton, Derek. (1986[2016]) – Introduction and Chapter 1: Pidgin to Creole. Roots of Language. Intro and Chapter 1 only: Full book: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/91 [CC-BY]
Discussion leader: Jamaar
Week 3: Tuesday 2/13 and Thursday 2/15.
(Tu 2/13) Parkvall, Mikael. (n.d.) – Pidgin Languages. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. http://linguistics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-58 [free access online]
Discussion leader: Jamaar
(Th 2/15) Winford, Donald. (2008) – Processes of Creole Formation and Related Contact-Induced Language Change. Journal of Language Contact, 2.1, pp. 124-145. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/000000008792525228 [open-access, CC-BY-NC, Brill Open]
Discussion leader: Francesca
Week 2: Tuesday 2/6 and Thursday 2/8.
(Tu 2/6) Sebba, Mark. (1997a) – Chapter 1: Close Encounters between Languages. Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. St. Martin’s. [not open access, available in group under ‘Files’]
Discussion leader: Alisia
(Th 2/8) Sebba, Mark. (1997b) – Chapter 2: The Character of Pidgins. Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. St. Martin’s. [not open access, available in group under ‘Files’]
Discussion leader: Walter
