The Oxford Handbook of English and Creole in the Caribbean

The Oxford Handbook of English and Creole in the Caribbean brings together a team of established researchers and junior scholars to provide accessible, state-of-the-art summaries of the history of Caribbean English-based creoles and Englishes. It also offers an integrated, comparative overview of the structural features of these varieties. The chapters draw on the authors' own empirical data alongside material from the online databases that have accompanied recent atlas projects in the field. Beyond historical and structural perspectives, the volume also outlines the ideologies and debates that have surrounded Caribbean creoles and Englishes, and highlights the ways in which research into these varieties has shaped the science of linguistics more broadly. The contributors further situate Caribbean Englishes and creoles in their wider sociolinguistic and sociocultural context by examining language use in education, literature, music, and the mass media, and by tracing postcolonial developments in pragmatics and language attitudes.