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Kebrina
Bailey
Freiburg
Creole and English in a British Overseas Territory
Language Variations and Language Attitudes in 21st Century Anguilla
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c Christian Mair
Anglistik
in Bearbeitung

Globalization and a need for social mobility are tied to the ways in which we use language and the ways we view others who use a certain variety of a language. English has become the Lingua Franca of the world and the Caribbean is a rich environment for studies on English and attitudes towards different varieties of Englishes. Therefore, my aim is to perform an in-depth sociolinguistic analysis of Anguillians' use of and attitudes towards their native language: the Anguillian Creole (AngC). I also seek to investigate their perceptions about accents of different varieties of World Englishes.Due to several factors historical and current, the influence of other external Creole varieties on Anguilla is complex and needs to be studied systematically in order to understand the sociolinguistic situation of Anguilla's contemporary languagescape. The empirical core of the study will be a corpus-based sociolinguistic analysis of key phonological and morphosyntactic features in the spoken dialect of Anguillians. The data will be compared to the speech of neighboring British territories (British Virgin Islands (BVI), Turks and Caicos Islands (TC)). The study will use four key data collection tools, and throughout the study, quantitative and qualitative methods will be used for data analysis.In connection with previous sociolinguistic studies of small-island communities, the projected findings on Anguilla will contribute to an understanding of the sociolinguistic dynamics of the contemporary Caribbean and thus make an important contribution to World Englishes linguistics.

Caribbean English-based Creoles
Contact Linguistics, Language Variations, Creolistic, World Englishes, Socio-linguistics
Corpus linguistics, Language attitudes, Grammar, Morpho-syntax, Phonology
Contact
Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg
Englisches Seminar
Fahnenbergplatz
79085
Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany