Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage: School Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766408726 ISBN 13: 9789766408725

Verlag: University of the West Indies Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage: SchoolEdition is intended to be used by secondary schoolchildren of the Caribbeanregion ages 11 to 18 and by their teachers. Its main objective is to be aneducational tool for the children of the region by promoting a strong sense ofCaribbean identity and pride in the young population, and to ensure that theirteachers will be able to learn more about themselves, their language, historyand culture and to impart such knowledge to their students with confidence.

The content is presented thematically, under topics such as Fauna, Flora, Foods, Music, Musical Instruments and Dance, Religion, Festivals,and Folklore. The four appendices demonstrate what dictionary skills areand the process of how to acquire them. The publication is the first of itskind and is a landmark in Caribbean lexicography. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeannette Allsopp now
retired, was Senior Research Fellow in Lexicography, founder and First Director
of the Richard and Jeannette Allsopp Centre for Caribbean Lexicography at The
UWI, Cave Hill campus. She is also Consultant for Caribbean English to Oxford
University Press, holder of the 1991 EURALEX Verbatim Award, and author of more
that 70 publications including the first and only Caribbean Multilingual
Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods in English, French Creole and Spanish
(Arawak Publications 2003).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9766408726
• ISBN 13: 9789766408725
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
• Herausgeber: Allsopp Jeannette, Griffith-watson Wendy
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande