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When language makes history: A focus on the history of Anguilla
| Location: | Puerto Rico |
| Lecture Date: | 2011-03-17 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-03-11 |
| Announcement ID: |
183781 |
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To be held on Rm 108, Graduate Social Sciences Bldg, Univ of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, on March 17, from 1-3 p.m. Offering a social history of language contact for Anguilla, the most northerly of the Caribbean’s Leeward Islands, this presentation examines ways in which the historical record contributes to theories of language. It offers a largely chronological discussion beginning with the earliest period of British colonization. Special attention is given to linguistic difference and the formation of speech communities, in particular the social experience of enslaved Africans. As will be shown, the history of Anguillian, the island’s English-lexifier Creole, is altogether distinct from that posited in contemporary theories of creolization. The establishment of schools for enslaved “scholars,” tradition of jollification, and use of Anguillian in writing will be used to track and unpack ideas about the social life of language.
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Dr Humberto Garcia-Muniz
Institute of Caribbean Studies
Univ of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
POB 23361
San Juan, PR 00931
tel. 767-763-2953, faxo 787-764-3099
Email: iec@uprrp.edu
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