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10. Against Creole Exceptionalism, Part 3: Creole formation is language acquisition plus social factors

Prof. Michel DeGraff · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Prof. Michel DeGraff. Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities. Spring 2017. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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All the lectures

  1. 1. Do "Pidgins" exist? Do Creole languages come from Pidgins? 10 min · Video
  2. 2. How much variation in space and in time through the history of Haitian Creole? 4 min · Video
  3. 3. On "Kreyolofoni": Why do we still use the label "Creole" to refer to "Creole languages"? 8 min · Video
  4. 4. Post-colonial discourses of power & identity; the making of socio-economic & cultural hierarchies 16 min · Video
  5. 5. Language and discourses of power in the making of “authentic” identities in post-colonial societies 15 min · Video
  6. 6. Language, culture, identity and "authenticity" in post-colonial communities 15 min · Video
  7. 7. Feedback to students who led class discussion 4 min · Video
  8. 8. Against Creole Exceptionalism, Part 1: Creole languages are perfectly normal languages 17 min · Video
  9. 9. Against Creole Exceptionalism, Part 2: Creole formation is normal language change 10 min · Video
  10. 10. Against Creole Exceptionalism, Part 3: Creole formation is language acquisition plus social factors 10 min · Video
  11. 11. "Birth certificates" of languages created via migration & population contact—Kreyòl, English… 10 min · Video
  12. 12. A brief & partial history of anti-Creole myths at the core of imperialism—linguistic & otherwise 18 min · Video
  13. Guest lecture (2022): Unmaking and remaking community (part 1) Video
  14. Guest lecture (2022): Unmaking and remaking community (part 2) Video