26235: Vedrine (note): Creolistics & Caribbean Language (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: E Vedrine <evedrine@hotmail.com>


CREOLISTICS & CARIBBEAN LANGUAGE (special theme of the “Sargasso” Review 
(2004/05, Vol. I)

[Special interview with Prof. Michel DeGraff, interviewed by Don E. Walicek 
(University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras), pp. 1-34. Title of interview “Creole 
Exceptionalism and Accidents of History: A Conversation with Michel DeGraff” – 
“DeGraff's work has played a major role in convincing a growing number of 
linguists around the world to ask key questions about how Creole languages are 
studied and to reconsider widely accepted ideas about their relationship to 
non-Creoles. In the conversation with DeGraff included here, he discusses a 
number of issues pertinent to contemporary research in the field of Creole 
Studies. Special attention is given to two concepts central to his recent work 
on Creole languages and ideology, Creole Exceptionalism and Postcolonial 
Creolistics. Intimately familiar with theoretical linguistics and the history 
of Creole Studies, DeGraff points out that research on Caribbean languages is a 
field of inquiry that has been an continues to be influenced by knowledge 
production from other areas and other periods ” (Don E. Walicek, Sargasso 
2004-05, I, pp. vii-viii]