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Creole Metaphors in Cultural Analysis

On the Limits and Possibilities of (Socio-) Linguistics

Roxy Harris

School of Education, King's College, London, roxy.harris{at}kcl.ac.uk

Ben Rampton

School of Education, King's College, London, ben.rampton{at}kcl.ac.uk

It is sometimes suggested that creole language study provides important concepts and metaphors for the analysis of cultural processes within globalization and transnational flow. This article argues, however, that although it may have served as a useful heuristic in certain cases, most of creole linguistics has been grounded in a set of assumptions and procedures that now look increasingly doubtful, both within linguistics and anthropology more generally. After some critical comments on politics and methodology within this subdisciplinary area, there is an overview of the challenge presented by a number of larger shifts in language study, and the article concludes with a socio-linguistic analysis of situated interaction which, we argue, provides a much better framework for understanding the dynamics of syncretic practice than the study of creole grammar.1

Key Words: code switching • creolization • language ideologies • situated interaction

Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 22, No. 1, 31-51 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X020220010101
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