It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Urban Jamaican Creole by Peter L. Patrick
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns with social influences. Is there a linguistic continuum? How does it correlate with social factors? The complex organization of an urbanizing Caribbean society and the highly variable nature of mesolectal speech norms and behavior present a challenge to sociolinguistic variation theory. The second...
Urban Jamaican Creole by Peter L. Patrick is 329 pages long, and a total of 85,211 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 45 minutes to read Urban Jamaican Creole aloud.
Urban Jamaican Creole is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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