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An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent J...
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oapen-20.500.12657-273892021-11-12T15:54:45Z The acrolect in Jamaica Irvine-Sobers, G. Alison Linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent Jamaica in interactions with local and international clients. The variation that does emerge, shows both the presence of some features traditionally characterized as Creole and a clear avoidance of other features found in basilectal and mesolectal Jamaican. Some phonological items are prerequisites for “good English” - variables that define the user as someone who speaks English - even if other Creole variants are present. The ideologies of language and language use that Jamaican speakers hold about “good English” clearly reflect the centuries-old coexistence of English and Creole, and suggest local norms must be our starting point for discussing the acrolect. 2019-01-04 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T11:51:19Z 2020-04-01T11:51:19Z 2018-11-28 book 1002621 OCN: 1082956692 9783961101146 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27389 eng application/pdf n/a 1002621.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.1306618 103665 10.5281/zenodo.1306618 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101146 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Berlin 103665 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent Jamaica in interactions with local and international clients. The variation that does emerge, shows both the presence of some features traditionally characterized as Creole and a clear avoidance of other features found in basilectal and mesolectal Jamaican. Some phonological items are prerequisites for “good English” - variables that define the user as someone who speaks English - even if other Creole variants are present. The ideologies of language and language use that Jamaican speakers hold about “good English” clearly reflect the centuries-old coexistence of English and Creole, and suggest local norms must be our starting point for discussing the acrolect. |
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