Dread Talk: The Rastafarians' Linguistic Response to Societal Oppression
Opposed to the repressive socio-economic political climate that resulted in the impoverishment of masses of Jamaicans, the Jamaican Rastafarians developed a language to resist societal oppression. This study examines that language--Dread Talk--as resistive language. Having determined that the othe...
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2008
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Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/44 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=english_theses |