“Nobody canna cross it” : entextualization, ideology, and the construction of Mock Registers in the Jamaican speech community
In this report, I discuss the re-contextualization of a working-class Jamaican speaker’s discourse in the media and the new meanings his speech acquires in the process. The series of re-contextualizations starts out with an interview on Jamaican television, which is in turn remixed into an electroni...
Main Author: | Bohmann, Axel |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5687 |
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