A vitalidade linguística dos crioulos do Haiti e da Luisiana : os limites da política e das atitudes linguísticas / The language vitality of Haitian and Louisiana Creole : the limits of language policy and language attitudes

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

28/02/2012

RESUMO

Haiti and Louisiana are connected via a number of sociohistorical parallels. Both were colonized by the French and the Spanish, but were much more culturally and linguistically influenced by the French presence. In both places, the plantation economy system took hold with a labor force comprised of West African slaves. The resulting social organization and demography - i.e. a linguistically diverse slave majority with limited contact with their French masters - lead to the formation of two distinct but structurally similar French creoles. However, despite these similarities between Haiti and Louisiana during the colonial period, Haitian Creole is currently the most spoken creole language in the world while Louisiana Creole is moribund. In this thesis, the sociohistorical factors of the post-colonial period that resulted in these two contrasting linguistic realities are examined, with an analysis of the language policy - specifically language legislation, standardization, and education - and its impact, as well as that of language attitudes and of more practical issues such as geography and economics, in shaping the vitality of these two languages.

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crioulos - haiti crioulos - louisiana (estados unidos) atitudes linguísticas politica linguistica sociolinguística creoles creoles language attitudes language policy sociolinguistics

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