Stephanie Hackert – författare

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.

The native speaker is one of the central but at the same time most controversial concepts of modern linguistics. With regard to English, it became especially controversial with the rise of the so-called "New Englishes," where reality is much more complex than the neat distinction into native and non-native speakers would make us believe. This volume reconstructs the coming-into-being of the English native speaker in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to probe into the origins of the problems surrounding the concept today. A corpus of texts which includes not only the classics of the nineteenth-century linguistic literature but also numerous lesser-known articles from periodical journals of the time is investigated by means of historical discourse analysis in order to retrace the production and reproduction of this particularly important linguistic ideology.