Корично изображение Електронна книга
Съдържание:
  • An introduction to the language of West Indians
  • Nonlinguistic methods of communication and transmission of information in the plantation slave society
  • Aspects of oral culture in the slave population
  • Political and social influences on the development of vernacular English
  • Literate communication in the plantation slave society
  • The rise of printing and publishing in the West Indies and its effects
  • Intellectual and literary activity and its effects on literate English
  • The rise of schools and their effect on English
  • English language and literacy in the early schools
  • The legacy of colonial literacy in West Indies.