Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica - Softcover

Cassidy, Frederic G.

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9789766401702: Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9766401705 ISBN 13: 9789766401702
Publisher: University Press of the West Indies, 2007

Synopsis

First published in 1961, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended for the general educated reader rather than the linguistic specialist, has a foundation of sound scholarship.

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About the Author

Frederic G. Cassidy was Professor of English, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Chief Editor, Dictionary of American Regional English. He received the Musgrave Silver Medal from the Institute of Jamaica for Jamaica Talk.

Review

"How did Jamaicans come to talk as they do? The musical lilt and staccato rhythms, the mingling of strange words, the vowel sounds that go sliding off into diphthongs, the cheerful defiance of many niceties of traditional English grammar, the salty idioms, the wonderfully compressed proverbs, the pungent imagery of nicknames and epithets in the bestowal of which these islanders appear to be peculiarly adept - where do all these hail from and how did they come to be?"

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Publisher
University Press of the West Indies
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9766401705
ISBN 13 
9789766401702
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
468
Rating
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