Negotiating social identities on an Eastern Maroon radio show
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Negotiating Social Identities on an Eastern Maroon Radio Show
In recent years, Pidgin and Creole languages have made significant inroads into the public domain of the countries where they are spoken. The media, and the radio broadcasting sector in particular, are the areas in which they figure most prominently. Extension of their use has brought about linguistic changes (Garrett, 2000). This paper explores such changes in relation to the Eastern Maroon ra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pragmatics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0378-2166
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.06.021