Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole

by Jean D'Costa, Barbara Lalla, Dr. Jean D'Costa Ph.D.

Book Overview

This text sets out to recapture the Creole speech of early Jamaican society by analyzing rare 18th-century documents in their socio-historical contexts. This book is a companion volume to Voices in Exile.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817304479
• ISBN13: 9780817304478
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"