Author : Richard Allsopp
Publisher :
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789766401450
This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
Author : Frederic G. Cassidy
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789766401276
The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.
Author : Lise Winer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 077357607X
Using the historical principles of the Oxford English Dictionary, Lise Winer presents the first scholarly dictionary of this unique language. The dictionary comprises over 12,200 entries, including over 4500 for flora and fauna alone, with numerous cross-references. Entries include definitions, alternative spellings, pronunciations, etymologies, grammatical information, and illustrative citations of usage. Winer draws from a wide range of sources - newspapers, literature, scientific reports, sound recordings of songs and interviews, spoken language - to provide a wealth and depth of language, clearly situated within a historical, cultural, and social context.
Author : Christopher Bonn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2013-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1304161439
The Slanguage Dictionary: Caribbean and Latin American Slang Words and Phrases is just that; a dictionary of slang words translated to English. Whether for entertainment or to expand your knowledge, this reference guide has slang covered from Puerto Rico to Panama. Also includes a pronunciation guide for Standard Spanish, Caribbean Spanish and Jamaican Patois.
Author : Albert Valdman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 153201600X
Haitian Creole (HC) is spoken by approximately 11,000,000 persons in Haiti and in diaspora communities in the United States and throughout the Caribbean. Thus, it is of great utility to Anglophone professionals engaged in various activities—medical, social, educational, welfare— in these regions. As the most widely spoken and best described creole language, a knowledge of its vocabulary is of interest and utility to scholars in a variety of disciplines. The English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary (EHCBD) aims to assist anglophone users in constructing written and oral discourse in HC; it also will aid HC speakers to translate from English to their language. As the most elaborate and extensive linguistic tool available, it contains about 30 000 individual entries, many of which have multiple senses and include subentries, multiword phrases or idioms. The distinguishing feature of the EHCBD is the inclusion of translated sentence-length illustrative examples that provide important information on usage.
Author : Dagmar Deuber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139916300
This book presents an in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad. Based on data from the International Corpus of English, it focuses on variation at the morphological and syntactic level between the educated standard and more informal educated spoken usage. Dagmar Deuber combines quantitative analyses across several text categories with qualitative analyses of transcribed text passages that are grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and recent approaches to linguistic style and identity. The discussion is situated in the context of variation in the Caribbean and the wider context of world Englishes, and the sociolinguistic background of Jamaica and Trinidad is also explored. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, world Englishes, and language contact.
Author : Franklin W. Knight
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Africans
ISBN : 9780199935796
"From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Pelé, the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography will provide a comprehensive overview of the lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically significant. The project will be unprecedented in scale, covering the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. It will also encompass the full scope of history, with entries on figures from the first forced slave migrations in the sixteenth centuries, to entries on living persons such as the Haitian musician and politician Wyclef Jean and the Cuban author and poet Nancy Morejón. Individuals will be drawn from all walks of life including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people whose lives have contributed to the history of the Caribbean and Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1134264291
Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader.
Author : Jonathan Brindle
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 3944675916
This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed to provide an inventory of correspondence with English usage in a reversal index. The concepts used in the dictionary are explained in a grammar outline, which is of interest to specialists in Gur and Grusi linguistics, as well as any language researchers working in this part of the world.
Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780304366361
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
