Touching the past : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents /
This paper considers reported speech of slaves in court records from the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. It constitutes some of the earliest evidence of slaves' language anywhere, and shows that the early slave community on the island of St Helena spoke a creoloid, as well as non-sta...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Company,
2013.
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| Series: | Advances in historical sociolinguistics ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
