{"product_id":"dread-talk-velma-pollard-9789768125682","title":"Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari","description":"Pollard analyses the speech code of the Rastafari of Jamaica, a group that adjusted the languages of the Jamaican people to suit their religious, philosophical, social and economic concerns as people speaking from \"under\".\u003cp\u003eThe book includes descriptions of Dread Talk, the speech of the Rastafari, as an example of lexical expansion in a creole language, and the influence of the lexicon on Jamaican English. It also discusses the adjustment of the language to other creoles, both English and French-related, in the Eastern Caribbean. New to this revised edition is a chapter on \"Dread Talk in the Diaspora\" that discusses the language as used in the urban centres of North America and Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Velma Pollard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9768125683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789768125682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of the West Indies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.32d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Velma Pollard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993443991807,"sku":"9789768125682","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1aeb1004-725a-471b-b9ac-0bb4a92eedec.jpg?v=1683324369","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dread-talk-velma-pollard-9789768125682","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}