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Language and colonisation: a comparison of the cases of Scotland and Réunion

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natural language processing

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paper
Créateur:
McD
Éditeur:
Lab
Éditeur:
CCSDUni
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International audience Réunionese Creole and Scots came from specific social contexts: settlement colony andburgh (charter towns). This paper discusses the major similarities and differencesbetween the developments of these languages as well as the role played by thegovernment, both local and state, and the conflicts which ensue. Notions such asdiglossia (Ferguson 1959 is best-known, but usage of the notion in the literature is bettersummarised by Lüdi 1989), homestead phase (Chaudenson) and ‘Frankish revolut

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comparative sociolinguisticsScottish GaelicRéunionese CreoleScotsLinguistic colonisation[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics

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