Exploring language in a multilingual context: variation, interaction and ideology in language documentation

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Zahir Mumin

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University at Albany,

State University of New York, USA

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© 2014, Zahir Mumin

Notes

1. The authors clarify that most of these professionals are from metropolitan France or the French Antilles and have very low linguistic competence, if any, in English-based Creoles.

2. The authors do not provide a specific definition for these practices. Based on the authors’ analysis of speech data in this chapter, I offer the following definition: speakers’ particular use of different languages or varieties in multilingual contexts where English-based Creoles usually predominate.