Book
Linguistic change in Gullah: sex, age, and mobility
Xerox University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Nichols, Patricia Causey.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of linguistic change in Gullah, the language spoken by the vast majority of African-Americans living along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts and the adjacent Sea Islands. The author attempts to show how rapid change in this creole-like language can be observed today as it functions across age and social groups and within cohesive speech communities. Nichols believes that as a contribution to an emerging theory of linguistic variations this work will provide evidence that changes of this nature are systematic both for individuals and for speech communities, and can be activated by social factors such as sex, age, and population mobility, which may vary from one community to the next. To illustrate this concept a comparison is made between island communities and those on the nearby mainland. A major portion of the discussion of linguistic change in Gullah deals with a detailed analysis of the grammar.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Linguistic identification
- Grammar
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Cultural identity and pride
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Gullah Geechee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1990
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Georgetown, South Carolina , United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Patricia Causey Nichols
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Stanford University, 1976
- UM 76-26,049
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sea Islands/Gullahs