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Ship English: Characteristic Feature...

Delgado, Sally J.

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Ship English: Characteristic Features of Sailors' Speech in the Early Colonial Caribbean.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Ship English: Characteristic Features of Sailors' Speech in the Early Colonial Caribbean./
作者:	Delgado, Sally J.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	437 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-11A(E).
標題:	Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10261807
ISBN:	9781369883756

Ship English: Characteristic Features of Sailors' Speech in the Early Colonial Caribbean.
Delgado, Sally J.

Ship English: Characteristic Features of Sailors' Speech in the Early Colonial Caribbean. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 437 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), 2017.

The dissertation presents evidence in support of the hypothesis that Ship English of the early colonial period was a distinct variety with characteristic features. It is motivated by the recognition that late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century sailors' speech was a widespread variety in the early colonial period, yet few academic studies have attempted to define its non-lexical characteristics. Therefore, this study aims to generate baseline data on the distinctive features of this variety. A mixed methods research design was implemented to establish demographic data on the primary speakers of this variety, to collate sociolinguistic data on how maritime speech communities functioned, and to identify characteristic features of speech. Findings support the hypothesis and suggest that Ship English was a sociolect formed through the mixing, leveling and simplification processes of koinization. The primary speakers of this variety were not only English-born male crew, but also foreign-born mariners and itinerant service-providers who lived and labored among maritime communities. Large speech communities on ships facilitated language spread as they included wage-earning sailors in addition to female service-providers, passengers, slaves, and apprentices who were typically not assigned a sailor's wage and therefore often undocumented in ships registers. Language spread beyond individual ships' communities was motivated by shared cultural identities, collective agency, and economic networks that connected extended maritime communities. Findings relating to linguistic data attest to a range of distinct features at the morphological level, within the noun phrase and verb phrase, and at the clause, sentence and discourse-level. Data on feature variation furthermore suggests that simplification may have been a characteristic feature that facilitated acquisition and spread of the variety. These findings are relevant to dialectology as they provide a model of how mutually intelligible features can become leveled to form a supra-regional koine that is not defined by geographical location or immigrant populations. They are also relevant to pidgin and creole studies as Ship English was likely to have been the most prevalent variety of English in the contact situations of the early colonial period.

ISBN: 9781369883756Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

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