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With every speech act all individuals perform, to a greater or less extent, an ‘act of identity’, revealing through their personal use of language their sense of social and ethnic solidarity or difference. Yet at the same time people also have powerful (if unconscious) stereotypes about the norms ans standards of their own language and those of others – often at variance with observable behaviour...
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The authors' extensive fieldwork in the Creole-speaking Caribbean and in the West Indian communities in London leading them to re-examine concepts as 'a language', 'correct usage', 'race' and 'ethnic groups' and clearly reveal the complex role of language in establishing relationships within regional and social communities and at the state or national level.
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ACTS OF IDENTITY CREOLE BASED APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND ATHNICITY SECOND EDITION WITH ADDITIONAL CO
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