Creole Languages in Diasporic Contexts

This volume represents a selection of the talks given at the International Symposium on “Language biographies and plurilingual identities in diasporic contexts“ (University of Bremen, March 28th-March 31st 2022). While plurilingual contexts and language contacts resulting from migrational movements have received increasing attention in linguistics over the past years, the particularities of language contact and linguistic developments in diasporic contexts have not yet been extensively studied. This is particularly true with regard to creole languages – even though the majority of creole speakers live in diasporic contexts. Based on the discussion of concrete case studies, this volume seeks to provide impulses from creole studies to the research field of 'migration and diaspora'. At the same time, it contributes to anchoring diaspora research in creole studies, thus focusing on the topics of globalization and transnational mobility, which have been widely neglected in creole studies so far. The contributions at hand comprise different philologies. They represent different approaches and questions relating to diaspora studies and discuss different English- and Romance-based creole languages from different geographical regions. Thus, a rather comprehensive illumination of a promising new field of research is provided and the need to bring together fields and approaches which have been applied independently of one another so far is highlighted.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction 1
Carolin Patzelt, Katrin Mutz & Magnus Fischer


Norms and Styling in (diasporic) Creole communities 7
Bettina Migge


African Diasporic Consciousness and Haitian Vodou’s Lexical Field: Historical Linguistic Approaches to Religious Language and Diasporic Identity 29
Benjamin Hebblethwaite


Naijá: A Mobile Pidgin in the Process of Becoming an Informal World Language? 55
Christian Mair


French-based Creoles in Montreal: First answers to language use and language attitudes of Haitians and Mauritians 81
Magnus Fischer & Katrin Mutz


Haitians in Rio de Janeiro: Linguistic Representations in the Construction of New Identities 109
Débora Amaral da Costa


Capeverdean-Portuguese language contact in urban Portugal 125
Ronny Beckert


A Return to Roots: Researching and Documenting the French Creole Foundations of Trinidadian Speech 153
Jo-Anne S. Ferreira


Contributors to this volume 175