“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...

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Main Author: Bohmann, Axel
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5687

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