A good command of the English language: Phonological variation in the Jamaican acrolect
A good command of the English language: Phonological variation in the Jamaican acrolect
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精通英语：牙买加 acrolect 的音系变化
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2004
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G. A. Irvine
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G. A. Irvine
本文介绍的是牙买加什么是好的英语或“acrolect”，谁为其设定了标准，以及如何充分描述它的特征。这里提出的研究与一种传统相矛盾，这种传统在讨论牙买加语言连续体中发现的形式时，采用了看似与国家无关的标准，实际上只不过是美国或英国标准英语。该研究基于在正式场合从牙买加准政府机构（此处称为 JAMPRO）白领员工收集的自发言论。该论文的标题暗示了一个人必须经过严格的选择协议才能被该机构雇用，因为良好的英语能力是该机构规定的就业最低要求之一。因此，有充分的理由假设这些线人是牙买加语的使用者，至少在特定的语言使用环境中是这样。在这篇文章中，我描述了牙买加英语使用者中发生的一些语音变化，并表明 acrolect 的传统概念并不是真正基于实际的语言使用。
This article is about what counts as good English or the acrolect in Jamaica, who sets the norm for it, and how it can be adequately characterized. The study presented here is at odds with a tradition that has assumed a seemingly country-free standard, in fact nothing more than American or British standard English, when discussing the forms found in the Jamaican linguistic continuum. The study is based on spontaneous speech collected in formal settings from white-collar employees of a Jamaican quasi-governmental agency (identified here as JAMPRO). The title of the paper suggests the rigid selection protocol one must go through to be employed by the agency, for a good command of the English language is one of the stated minimum requirements for employment at the agency. There is every reason to assume, therefore, that these informants are speakers of the Jamaican acrolect, at least in the particular context of language use. In this article I describe some of the phonological variation that occurs in these speakers of Jamaican English and show that the traditional notion of the acrolect has not really been based on actual language use.