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Jamaican swear words are popular far beyond the borders of the Caribbean island. Swearing practices in Jamaican are interesting due to their linguistic set-up based on historical language contact and their socio-cultural contexts, their... more
Jamaican swear words are popular far beyond the borders of the Caribbean island. Swearing practices in Jamaican are interesting due to their linguistic set-up based on historical language contact and their socio-cultural contexts, their adaptations in music and material culture and their usage among various groups of people around the world. Moreover, the legal situation of swearing in Jamaica provides insights into controversies between law and practices that goes back to colonial times. Despite those various aspects, Jamaican swearing practices have not yet attracted attention in linguistic scholarship. Hence, this paper provides first insights into the linguistics of swearing in Jamaica and discusses not only etymological, semantic and syntactic aspects of swearing, but also reflects on the sociolinguistic background and the usage of swear words outside Jamaica as well as in music. A discussion of the legal background of using swear words sheds light on the colonial history of linguistic censoring and its effects on today’s society. This paper starts with some theoretical preliminaries that place linguistic swearing practices in its sociocultural context before examining Jamaican swearing expressions, discussing some aspects of their historical background and etymology, analyzing linguistic constructions and sociolinguistic implications as well as reflecting on social and legal regulation and adaptations in and outside Jamaica. This chapter provides an original and innovative account of swearing in Jamaican and thus contributes to a better understanding of swearing in a cross-cultural perspective.
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Research Interests: Lexicology, Youth Studies, Youth Subcultures, Youth subcultures (Anthropology), Jamaican Creole, and 21 moreYouth Language, Lexis, Trinidad and Tobago, Dancehall culture Jamaican music politics, Slang, Urban Youth languages, Jamaican Popular Culture, Anti-Language, Terms of Address, Belizean Creole, Jamaican Languages, Jamaican patois, Youth Repertoire, Hip-hop slang, AAVE slang, Jamaican dancehall words, Jamaican lingua, Jamaican lingo, Jamaican Patwa, Street Language, and Jamaican Patois Dictionary
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This paper presents Jamaica as a case study of the intersections between language practice, language ideologies, and music, using a historically grounded descriptive approach spanning a period of more than three and a half centuries. It... more
This paper presents Jamaica as a case study of the intersections between language practice, language ideologies, and music, using a historically grounded descriptive approach spanning a period of more than three and a half centuries. It describes secular and religious Jamaican music(s) and ideologies connected to them through different periods of the country's history characterised by different social and socio-political configurations (e.g., slavery, colonial rule, Independence). These systems and the emergent socialities to which they gave rise influenced the creation of new musical genres and determined to varying extents how linguistic codes were distributed by genre, and in the lyrics themselves.
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Jamaica; Historical description; Genre; Creole
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Jamaica; Historical description; Genre; Creole
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The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity'... more
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue, expand, and update the dialog between Caribbean variation studies and general sociolinguistics.
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The Jamaican National Dictionary is a web-based multimedia dictionary of Jamaican (Creole) and English. It is a dictionary on historical principles which means that it aims to chart the history of all words in these languages. The... more
The Jamaican National Dictionary is a web-based multimedia dictionary of Jamaican (Creole) and English. It is a dictionary on historical principles which means that it aims to chart the history of all words in these languages. The treatment of each word will include information on its pronunciation (s), parts of speech, etymology, meaning (s), and usage. Each meaning will be supported by quotations from (un) published print or oral sources.
٭ Far larger numbers of slaves from the Bight of Benin, the Congo and the Angola were eventually delivered to Jamaica by the time the trade was brought to an end in 1807-8; but by that time as both the linguistic and historical evidence... more
٭ Far larger numbers of slaves from the Bight of Benin, the Congo and the Angola were eventually delivered to Jamaica by the time the trade was brought to an end in 1807-8; but by that time as both the linguistic and historical evidence show, the Akan-and Ewe-speaking slaves were firmly established in a Creole society, speaking Creole English […](Cassidy & Le Page [1967] 1980: xli)
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... Note * Correspondence address: Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies , University of Tech-nology, Jamaica, 237 Old Hope Road, Kingston 6 Jamaica. E-mail: joseph.farquharson@ utech.edu.jm. Two valuable contributions to creolistics... more
... Note * Correspondence address: Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies , University of Tech-nology, Jamaica, 237 Old Hope Road, Kingston 6 Jamaica. E-mail: joseph.farquharson@ utech.edu.jm. Two valuable contributions to creolistics 1389 Page 6. References ...
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Creolists who are interested in creole genesis have been engaged in language comparison for several decades, as they compare linguistic features in creoles to similar features in the lexifiers and putative substrate languages. However,... more
Creolists who are interested in creole genesis have been engaged in language comparison for several decades, as they compare linguistic features in creoles to similar features in the lexifiers and putative substrate languages. However, very few of these researchers would see themselves as being engaged in contrastive linguistics although comparing and contrasting linguistic features across specific languages are crucial to their work.