{"id":6146,"date":"2016-05-09T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2016-05-09T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:20:31","slug":"a-post-creole-continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2016\/05\/09\/a-post-creole-continuum\/","title":{"rendered":"a post-creole continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-creole_continuum#Stratification\">wikipedia<\/a>: &#8220;William Stewart, in 1965, proposed the terms acrolect and basilect as sociolinguistic labels for the upper and lower boundaries respectively of a post-creole speech continuum&#8221;&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8220;In certain speech communities, a continuum exists between speakers of a creole language and a related standard language. There are no discrete boundaries between the different varieties and the situation in which such a continuum exists involves considerable social stratification&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And so:<\/p>\n<p>18 different ways of rendering the phrase &#8220;I gave him one&#8221; in Guyanese English (from Bell, R.T. (1976), <em>Sociolinguistics: Goals, Approaches, and Problems<\/em>, Batsford).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bell1976.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6148\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2016\/05\/09\/a-post-creole-continuum\/bell1976\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bell1976.png?fit=300%2C379&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,379\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bell1976\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bell1976.png?fit=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bell1976.png?fit=300%2C379&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bell1976.png?resize=300%2C379\" alt=\"bell1976\" width=\"300\" height=\"379\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bell1976.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bell1976.png?resize=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From wikipedia: &#8220;William Stewart, in 1965, proposed the terms acrolect and basilect as sociolinguistic labels for the upper and lower boundaries respectively of a post-creole speech continuum&#8221;&#8230;. &#8220;In certain speech communities, a continuum exists between speakers of a creole language and a related standard language. 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