Letterature di lingua inglese 2015-16
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Caribbean English
Original languages have disappeared
Two dimensions of variation:
1: speaker's geographical origin
2: ethnic dimension
>>> social and nationalistic identity
Standard English ->- varieties of the standard language -<- creole languages
English Based Creoles are used as lingua francas in some of the Spanish-speaking countries (Columbia and Nicaragua)
Some Grammatical Features: from D. Crysal, The CAmbridge Encyclopaedia of The English Language
Caliban, The Tempest:
You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!Shakespeare's Caliban, The Tempest 1.2.364-6 -
Teju Cole Reads “Caliban" by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Caribbean poet, Kamau Brathwaite
