Thursday, April 23, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
An interesting article
An interesting article about a dying Spanish-based creole language in Colombia.
Palenquero, still spoken in the jungle of northern Colombia, may be the last remnant of a Spanish-based lingua franca once used widely by slaves throughout Latin America.
Welcome to the Sociolect
This is the sociolect.blogspot.com where I will reflect on the nature of language and society and the way that language collectively shapes us in interesting ways. Two quotes will get us started:
“Speech is my hammer, bang the world into shape.”
-Mos Def Black on Both Sides
“Every time you write, you not only emit a series of words; you also carry out a socio-political act, or whatever you wish to call it.” -Umberto Eco “Interview: Umberto Eco” Diacritics. Vol. 17, No. 1. (Spring, 1987), pp. 46-51.
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