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William Stewart, in 1965, proposed that the terms acrolect and basilect be the sociolinguistic labels for the upper and lower boundaries respectively of a post-creole speech continuum.[1] In the early 1970s Derek Bickerton popularized these terms (as well as mesolect for intermediate points in the continuum) to refer to the phenomenon of code-switching used by some users of creole languages who also have some fluency in the standard language upon which the contact language is based. University of Chicago linguist Salikoko Mufwene explains the phenomenon of creole languages as "basilectalization" away from a standard, often European, language among a mixed European and non-European population.[2] In certain speech communities, a continuum exists between speakers of a creole language and a related standard language. There are no discrete boundaries between the different varieties and the situation in which such a continuum exists involves considerable social stratification.
The following table (from Bell 1975) shows the 18 different ways of rendering the phrase I gave him one in Guyanese English:
1
aɪ
ɡeɪv
hɪm
wʌn
2
wan
3
a
ɪm
4
iː
5
ɡɪv
hɪm
6
ɪm
7
iː
8
dɪd
ɡɪv
9
dɪ
ɡɪ
10
dɪd
11
dɪ
ɡiː
12
ɡɪ
hiː
13
mɪ
14
iː
15
bɪn
16
ɡiː
17
æm
18
The continuum shown has the acrolect form as [aɪ ɡeɪv hɪm wʌn] (which is nearly identical with Standard English) while the basilect form is [mɪ ɡiː æm wan]. Due to code-switching, most speakers have a command of a range in the continuum and, depending on social position, occupation, etc. can implement the different levels with various levels of skill.[3]
If a society is so stratified as to have little to no contact between groups who speak the creole and those who speak the superstrate (dominant) language, a situation of diglossia occurs, rather than a continuum. Assigning separate and distinct functions for the two varieties will have the same effect. This is the case in Haiti with Haitian Creole and French.
Use of the terms acrolect, mesolect and basilect attempts to avoid the value judgement inherent in earlier terminology, by which the language spoken by the ruling classes in a capital city was defined as the "correct" or "pure" form while that spoken by the lower classes and inhabitants of outlying provinces was "a dialect" characterised as "incorrect", "impure" or "debased".
[edit] Tags:Creole Language,Varieties,Superstrate,Edit,Derek Bickerton,Code-switching,Standard Language,University Of Chicago,Salikoko Mufwene,Guyanese English,Standard English,Diglossia,Haiti,Haitian Creole,French, | |
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It has been suggested (Rickford 1977; Dillard 1972) that African American Vernacular English is a decreolized form of a slave creole. Once blacks acquired recognition of equality under the law, opportunities for interaction created a strong influence of standard (American) English onto the speech of blacks so that a continuum exists today with Standard English as the acrolect and varieties closest to the original creole as the basilect.
In Jamaica, a continuum exists between Jamaican English and Jamaican Patois.[4]
[edit] Tags:Decreolize,African American Vernacular English,Jamaica,Jamaican English,Jamaican Patois, | |
| Notes | |
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^ Stewart (1965:15)
^ Salikoko Mufwene: Pidgin and Creole Languages
^ DeCamp (1977:?)
^ Meade (2001:19)
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| References | |
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Bell, R.T. (1976), Sociolinguistics: Goals, Approaches, and Problems, Batsford
Bickerton, Derek (1975). Dynamics of a Creole System. Cambridge University Press.
DeCamp, D (1977), "The Development of Pidgin and Creole Studies", in Valdman, A, Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Indiana University Press
Dillard, John L. (1972), Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States, Random House, ISBN 0-394-71872-0
Meade, R.R. (2001), Acquisition of Jamaican Phonology, Dordrecht: Holland Institute of Linguistics
Rickford, John (1977), "The Question of Prior Creolization in Black English", in Valdman, A, Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Indiana University Press
Stewart, William (1965), "Urban Negro speech: Sociolinguistic factors affecting English teaching", in R. Shuy; A. Davis; R. Hogan, Social dialects and language learning, National Council of Teachers of English, pp. 10–18
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