SELF-ANNULLING PRESTIGE FACTORS AMONG SPEAKERS OF A CREOLE LANGUAGE

William John Samarin

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Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies Linguistic Variation and Morphology Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity

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Prestige in bilingual situations has been generally described as a unidirectional force. It is held that that language or form of language which contributes to one's social advance will dominate in any situation. Unfavored languages suffer by losing speakers to a prestige language and by borrowing features from it. Only in an insignificant way have prestige languages been known both as recipients and as donors, e.g. English, which has received some words from Amerindian languages as well as from immigrants to the United States.

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