Jamaican Creole Proverbs from the Perspective of Contact Linguistics

1. INTRODUCTION	1
1.1. Research objectives	1
1.1.1. Subject matter	2
1.1.2. Research perspective	2
1.1.3. Research material	3
1.2. Structure of Jamaica talk	5
1.3. Jamaica before the English invasion	8
1.4. The English invasion – the sociolinguistic situation	10
2. OVERALL FRAMEWORK OF CONTACT PHENOMENA	12
2.1. On the general causes of language change	15
2.2. Language loss/death mechanisms	20
2.2.1. Mechanisms of language loss	22
2.2.2. Language loss in the colonial period	23
2.3. Contact linguistics	26
2.3.1. On the ecology of languages in contact	30
2.3.2. Ethnography of communication of the Jamaican Creole speech community	34
3. PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES	38
3.1. On the etymology of the word pidgin	40
3.2. Definitions of the term pidgin	41
REFERENCES	126
DATABASE of Jamaican Proverbs	228
INDEX OF TERMS in Jamaican Creole Proverbs	229
INDEX OF TERMS	237

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