Trinidad Yoruba : From Mother-Tongue to Memory.

By: Warner-Lewis, MaureenMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory SerPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817383183Subject(s): Ethnohistory -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad | Yoruba language -- Dialects -- Trinidad and Tobago -- TrinidadGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trinidad Yoruba : From Mother-Tongue to MemoryDDC classification: 496.33370972 LOC classification: PL8824.Z9 -- T695 1996ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Ethnonyms -- Orthographic Guide -- Phonological Symbols -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: The Yoruba of Trinidad: Historical Background and Sociolinguistic Behavior -- 1. The Yoruba and Transatlantic Slavery -- 2. First-Generation Trinidad Yoruba Society -- 3. Language Attitudes of Second- and Third-Generation Africans -- 4. Residual Language Domains: Names and Ritual -- Part Two: Trinidad Yoruba: Linguistic Structures -- 5. Phonology -- 6. Syntax -- 7. Lexicon -- Part Three: The Dialectics of Obsolescence and Creolization -- 8. Language Recession within a Creolized Context -- 9. Creolization Processes in Broader Perspective -- Appendix: Trinidad Yoruba Lexicon in Alphabetical Order -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery. Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study breaks new ground in addressing the experience of Africans in one locale of the Africa Diaspora and examines the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was successively retained, modified, and discarded in a European-dominated island community.
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Ethnonyms -- Orthographic Guide -- Phonological Symbols -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: The Yoruba of Trinidad: Historical Background and Sociolinguistic Behavior -- 1. The Yoruba and Transatlantic Slavery -- 2. First-Generation Trinidad Yoruba Society -- 3. Language Attitudes of Second- and Third-Generation Africans -- 4. Residual Language Domains: Names and Ritual -- Part Two: Trinidad Yoruba: Linguistic Structures -- 5. Phonology -- 6. Syntax -- 7. Lexicon -- Part Three: The Dialectics of Obsolescence and Creolization -- 8. Language Recession within a Creolized Context -- 9. Creolization Processes in Broader Perspective -- Appendix: Trinidad Yoruba Lexicon in Alphabetical Order -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery. Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study breaks new ground in addressing the experience of Africans in one locale of the Africa Diaspora and examines the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was successively retained, modified, and discarded in a European-dominated island community.

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