Codeswitching on the web : English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication /

Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the creo...

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Main Author: Hinrichs, Lars
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2006
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 147.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central