Ethnicity Theory Flashcards Master
Ethnicity refers to one’s family _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, linking one historically and culturally to places where one’s antecedents lived.
heritage
Pidgins and creoles are languages that draw their lexis largely from one language, but 3 things from several others. What are those 3 things?
Syntax, grammar and phonology
Many Pidgins and Creoles are based on European languages in areas that have been _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ by European nations.
Colonised
Communities start by creating a pidgin, which many people speak but which isn’t any community’s _ _ _ _ _ language.
First
If a pidgin survives, what does it become?
A creole
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ often provides the right conditions for the development of a pidgin.
Colonisation
If two speech communities meet and their need to communicate lasts long enough for it to be worthwhile, usually one of the languages will become _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and will be used by both communities.
Dominant
A creole is the first, second or third language of a community?
First
A pidgin is a language that has grown up between communities that do not have a mutually _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ language.
intelligible
What does intelligible mean?
Easily understood?
Pidgins most often serve the function of a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or trading language
Lingua franca
A lingua franca is most usually concerned with what?
Routine communication between different communities e.g. buying and selling
A pidgin isn’t anyone’s _ _ __ _ _ language.
first
Once the pidgin is used as a speech communities first language, what does it become?
A creole
It was the policy of the colonial government to divide _ _ _ _ _ _ communities
Speech
The slaves developed pidgin languages in order to c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ with each other.
Communicate
The _ _ _ _ _ of these languages tended to be drawn from English because it was the only language that they had in common.
lexis
The grammar and phonology was often drawn from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and the original African languages of the workers.
English
Jamaican creole is also known as which other names?
Patwa or Patois
What is the prestige form in Jamaica?
Standard English
Because Standard English is the most prestige form in Jamaica, it means that, over time, Patwa is becoming increasingly like Standard English. What do we call this process?
Decreolisation