[LINC47H3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (33 pages long)
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Introduction to pidgins and creoles (p&c) reading: chapter 1, p. 1-13. Colonizing countries such as europe, north america and far south. The creoles that are spoken are mostly english based, french based, spanish based, african based, dutch based. It"s important for speakers to show that they speak more of the european type. Exoticism, can be viewed in either a positive way or a negative way. Often viewed as broken corrupt version or inferior version of european languages. Creole speakers were seen as savages and uncivilized. 1950s and 60s, few linguists started studying them, and saw them as exotic languages. They were seen as exciting languages & were a cool thing to study. Linguists weren"t focusing on the evolution of these languages, it was more about describing it and comparing it to other languages. Attitudes have changed over time, we learned that they are in fact their own linguistic structures and aren"t broken languages.
