Lexicology and Lexicography by Joseph T Farquharson
Jamaica Gleaner, 2023
This is an announcement in the national press of the start of work on the Dictionary of the Jamai... more This is an announcement in the national press of the start of work on the Dictionary of the Jamaican Language (DJL).
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Swearing and Cursing: Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective, 2020
Jamaican swear words are popular far beyond the borders of the Caribbean island. Swearing practic... more Jamaican swear words are popular far beyond the borders of the Caribbean island. Swearing practices in Jamaican are interesting due to their linguistic set-up based on historical language contact and their socio-cultural contexts, their adaptations in music and material culture and their usage among various groups of people around the world. Moreover, the legal situation of swearing in Jamaica provides insights into controversies between law and practices that goes back to colonial times. Despite those various aspects, Jamaican swearing practices have not yet attracted attention in linguistic scholarship. Hence, this paper provides first insights into the linguistics of swearing in Jamaica and discusses not only etymological, semantic and syntactic aspects of swearing, but also reflects on the sociolinguistic background and the usage of swear words outside Jamaica as well as in music. A discussion of the legal background of using swear words sheds light on the colonial history of linguistic censoring and its effects on today’s society. This paper starts with some theoretical preliminaries that place linguistic swearing practices in its sociocultural context before examining Jamaican swearing expressions, discussing some aspects of their historical background and etymology, analyzing linguistic constructions and sociolinguistic implications as well as reflecting on social and legal regulation and adaptations in and outside Jamaica. This chapter provides an original and innovative account of swearing in Jamaican and thus contributes to a better understanding of swearing in a cross-cultural perspective.
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This paper presents Jamaica as a case study of the intersections between language practice, langu... more This paper presents Jamaica as a case study of the intersections between language practice, language ideologies, and music, using a historically grounded descriptive approach spanning a period of more than three and a half centuries. It describes secular and religious Jamaican music(s) and ideologies connected to them through different periods of the country's history characterised by different social and socio-political configurations (e.g., slavery, colonial rule, Independence). These systems and the emergent socialities to which they gave rise influenced the creation of new musical genres and determined to varying extents how linguistic codes were distributed by genre, and in the lyrics themselves.
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Jamaica; Historical description; Genre; Creole
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Lexicology and Lexicography by Joseph T Farquharson
Linguistic Ideology by Joseph T Farquharson
Keywords
Jamaica; Historical description; Genre; Creole
Language Variation by Joseph T Farquharson
Keywords
Jamaica; Historical description; Genre; Creole