Bettina Migge is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at University College Dublin. Isabelle Léglise is a permanent Researcher in Linguistics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) where she heads a programme on Language Contact at the SeDyL/CELIA-CNRS (Structure et Dynamique des Langues/Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique). Since 2000, she has been engaged in research projects in French Guiana, and, more recently, in Suriname and Brazil, with a special focus on multilingualism, contact-induced changes, language and migration, and educational issues. Her main research interests are language contact, language variation and change, discourse analysis, sociology of language and applied linguistics.

'Migge and Leglise have explored several borders in this groundbreaking study: between French Guiana and Suriname, between different ethnic groups, but foremost between critical discourse analysis and descriptive linguistics.' Pieter Muysken, Radboud University Nijmegen

• 1. Introduction; 2. The political, social and linguistic contexts of French Guiana; 3. The Maroons: historical and anthropological notes; 4. What's in the name Takitaki? Investigating linguistic ideologies; 5. The social profiles of some Takitaki speakers: the data for this study; 6. Towards the linguistic structure of Takitaki: an analysis of Takitaki practices; 7. Communicating in Takitaki: Maroons and non-Maroons in interaction; 8. Linguistic practices among urban Maroons; 9. On Takitaki and its insights.

Bettina Migge is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at University College Dublin. Isabelle Léglise is a permanent Researcher in Linguistics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) where she heads a programme on Language Contact at the SeDyL/CELIA-CNRS (Structure et Dynamique des Langues/Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique). Since 2000, she has been engaged in research projects in French Guiana, and, more recently, in Suriname and Brazil, with a special focus on multilingualism, contact-induced changes, language and migration, and educational issues. Her main research interests are language contact, language variation and change, discourse analysis, sociology of language and applied linguistics.

'Migge and Leglise have explored several borders in this groundbreaking study: between French Guiana and Suriname, between different ethnic groups, but foremost between critical discourse analysis and descriptive linguistics.' Pieter Muysken, Radboud University Nijmegen

• 1. Introduction; 2. The political, social and linguistic contexts of French Guiana; 3. The Maroons: historical and anthropological notes; 4. What's in the name Takitaki? Investigating linguistic ideologies; 5. The social profiles of some Takitaki speakers: the data for this study; 6. Towards the linguistic structure of Takitaki: an analysis of Takitaki practices; 7. Communicating in Takitaki: Maroons and non-Maroons in interaction; 8. Linguistic practices among urban Maroons; 9. On Takitaki and its insights.