FREC47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Creole Language, Franglais, Post-Creole Continuum
Document Summary
Introduction to pidgins and creoles (p&c) reading: chapter 1, p. 1-13. Spoken in lands that have been colonized oftentimes by europeans thus not found in europe. Looked down upon, disregarded, viewed as corrupt versions of their base languages. Associated with laborers, indentured workers and slaves in the past. Pidgins and creoles were not studied by linguists because they were considered broken languages and thus not worthy of study. Not just the colonizers who look as the language as corrupt but also the speakers of these creoles. 1930s there were a few creole dictionaries but it was not significantly studied. First type of publications were theoretical, attempt at orthography. 1950s-70s there was more a push towards linguistic studies of creole languages. 1980s-90s marked the beginning of serious studies of creole, examinations of origin languages of creole, similarities between creole and african languages. A dialect is a variety or a variation of a language such as english in.
