Although the last few years have seen an increased interest in the communicative power of Creoles (cf. Migge, 2020; Rickford, 2019), thus starting to shift the focus away from the traditionally dominant structural and historical research …
No single test is robust or exhaustive enough to accurately establish the meaning of tense, mood and aspect (TMA) markers. This article explores the benefits of using canonical and statistical approaches and a variety of elicitation tasks. The …
Organisation of a hybrid workshop about Creole Multilingualism
Offering a detailed investigation of three Mauritian Creole pragmatic markers based on one of the verba dicendi, dir ‘say’, in a corpus of spoken discourse, this article sets out to offer a preliminary insight into a category of elements that, to …
Study funded by AHRC
In order to compare language attitudes and reported language use expressed in interviews with actual language choices, I use the broad theoretical framework of Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) (Giles, 2016) as this provides scope to explore how/whether participants changed the way they spoke (either using another language entirely or modifying features of the same language) to accommodate their interlocuter.
Following a series of articles about the status of Mauritian’s future markers in the 1993 edition of Etudes Créoles (Baker 1993; Hazaël-Massieux 1993; Touchard & Véronique 1993) there has been little debate about the division of labour between POU …
An investigation of three discourse markers in Mauritian Creole
Language in Mauritius' public spaces.