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- Title
The earliest Gullah/aave texts: A case of 19th‐century mesolectal variation.
- Authors
Troike, Rudolph C.
- Abstract
The article discusses earlier texts in Gullah, the English creole, which provide actual documentation of registered variation among Gullah speakers. These texts were published in the November 1868 issue of "The Riverside Magazine for Young People." These texts include the animal tales, which formed African American/Gullah oral literature style. It is opined that Gullah speech's representations had appeared earlier in writings in short paragraphs or sentence-length dialogue in Gullah in place of full texts. It is believed that the speakers had command on a wide range of varieties and showed their ability to switch from basilect to mesolect and then to acrolect style, which is considered as a code-switching behavior and is associated with bilingual situations.
- Subjects
SEA Islands Creole dialect; GULLAHS; ENGLISH Creole dialects; ANIMAL stories; CODE switching (Linguistics); BILINGUALISM; LITERARY style; CREOLE literature; SPEECH in literature
- Publication
Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages, 2003, Vol 18, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
0920-9034
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/jpcl.18.2.02tro