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In and Out of Suriname. Language, Mobility and Identity

Isabelle Léglise
Carlin Eithne
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Bettina Migge
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Paul Tjon Sie Fat
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Abstract

In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the self and others, and the role of language therein. They discuss the impact of contact and mobilities on language maintenance, expansion and change. Language, mobility and identity in Suriname are observed through the lens of the actors themselves, from the ever-mobile Amerindians and Maroons on the periphery of land and society through expanding urban societies enhanced by recent migration from Haiti, Brazil and China.
L'ouvrage présente un panorama multidisciplinaire de travaux sur le Surinam, pays de la Caraïbe et du plateau des Guyanes. En rupture avec des conceptions étroites et fermées de l'identité, les auteurs s'intéressent aux enjeux de sociétés multilingues et multiculturelles au travers de l'ethnicité, comme distinction sociale, et de l'identité comme construction de soi et de l'autre. Ils se penchent en particulier sur le rôle du langage dans ces processus et constructions.
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hal-01134978 , version 1 (24-03-2015)

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Isabelle Léglise, Carlin Eithne, Bettina Migge, Paul Tjon Sie Fat (Dir.). In and Out of Suriname. Language, Mobility and Identity . Eithne Carlin; Isabelle Léglise; Bettina Migge; Paul Tjon Sie Fat. Brill, 2015, 9789004280113. ⟨hal-01134978⟩
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