Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse

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Autor(a) principal: Corum, Micah
Data de Publicação: 2018
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Resumo: This paper is a rejoinder to the dialogue concerning complexity and simplicity in pidgin and creole grammars. My position takes a chronotopic and unfinalized view of grammar, Bakhtinian notions that give crucial importance to temporal and spatial contexts in discussions about linguistic development-expansion and historicity of language use. I take a modular perspective and focus on a pragmatic component of grammar: ambiguity in discourse. Linguistic utterances that contain the phrasal verbs rip off and hot up are analyzed in the present study for their ambiguous[1], double-voicing features. My aim is to underscore the importance of recognizing double-voicing as a complex discursive strategy in Afro-Caribbean creole grammar. This feature and other non-salient, zero-marked constructions remain difficult to account for using current metrics of complexity versus simplicity. I invoke insights from Bakhtin and his theory of dialogism in the hope that it can aid our analysis of plurilingualism and the cultivation of ambiguity in creole discourse.[1] Cultivating ambiguity is a term borrowed from Faraclas and The Working Group on the Agency of Marginalized Peoples in the Emergence of the Afro-Atlantic Creoles (2016).
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spelling Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole DiscourseCultivando a ambiguidade: considerações sobre questões de complexidade no discurso criouloCreole discourseAmbiguitySimplicity and complexityDiscurso criouloAmbiguidadeSimplicidade e complexidadeThis paper is a rejoinder to the dialogue concerning complexity and simplicity in pidgin and creole grammars. My position takes a chronotopic and unfinalized view of grammar, Bakhtinian notions that give crucial importance to temporal and spatial contexts in discussions about linguistic development-expansion and historicity of language use. I take a modular perspective and focus on a pragmatic component of grammar: ambiguity in discourse. Linguistic utterances that contain the phrasal verbs rip off and hot up are analyzed in the present study for their ambiguous[1], double-voicing features. My aim is to underscore the importance of recognizing double-voicing as a complex discursive strategy in Afro-Caribbean creole grammar. This feature and other non-salient, zero-marked constructions remain difficult to account for using current metrics of complexity versus simplicity. I invoke insights from Bakhtin and his theory of dialogism in the hope that it can aid our analysis of plurilingualism and the cultivation of ambiguity in creole discourse.[1] Cultivating ambiguity is a term borrowed from Faraclas and The Working Group on the Agency of Marginalized Peoples in the Emergence of the Afro-Atlantic Creoles (2016).Este artigo é uma resposta ao diálogo relativo à complexidade e simplicidade em gramáticas pidgin e crioulas. Minha abordagem requer uma visão cronotópica e não finalizada da gramática, bem como noções bakhtinianas que dão importância crucial aos contextos temporais e espaciais nas discussões sobre a expansão, o desenvolvimento linguístico e a historicidade do uso da linguagem. Assumo, nesta pesquisa, uma perspectiva modular, cujo foco recai sobre um componente pragmático da gramática: a ambiguidade no discurso. No presente estudo, enunciados linguísticos que contêm os phrasal verbs[1] “rip off” e “hot up” são analisados por suas características ambíguas[2] e bivocais. Meu objetivo é ressaltar a importância de se reconhecer a bivocalidade como uma estratégia discursiva complexa na gramática crioula afro-caribenha. Essa característica e outras construções não marcadas, ou marcadas com zero, são difíceis de se justificar utilizando as métricas atuais de complexidade versus simplicidade. Invoco, aqui, ideias de Bakhtin e sua teoria do dialogismo, na esperança de auxiliar em nossa análise do plurilinguismo e do cultivo da ambiguidade no discurso crioulo.[1] N. do T.: “Um phrasal verb é uma frase que consiste na combinação de um verbo com uma preposição ou advérbio ou ambos, cujo significado é diferente daquele de cada uma de suas partes” [No original: “A phrasal verb is a phrase which consists of a verb in combination with a preposition or adverb or both, the meaning of which is differente form the meaning of its separate parts”]. (Cambridge Internacional Dictionaty of English. Cambridge University Press, 1995).[2] Cultivando a ambiguidade é um termo emprestado de Faraclas e do The Working Group on the Agency of Marginalized Peoples in the Emergence of the Afro-Atlantic Creoles [Grupo de Trabalho da Agência de Pessoas Marginalizadas no Surgimento de Línguas Crioulas Afro-atlanticas] (2016).Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo2018-05-13info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/33628Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso ; Vol. 13 No. 2 (2018); Port. 6-31 / Eng. 7-29Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso; Vol. 13 Núm. 2 (2018); Port. 6-31 / Eng. 7-29Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso; Vol. 13 No. 2 (2018); Port. 6-31 / Eng. 7-29Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso; v. 13 n. 2 (2018); Port. 6-31 / Eng. 7-29Бахтиниана: Журнал дискурсивных исследований; Том 13 № 2 (2018); Port. 6-31 / Eng. 7-292176-4573reponame:Bakhtinianainstname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)instacron:PUC_SPengporhttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/33628/25407https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/33628/25408Copyright (c) 2018 Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso. ISSN 2176-4573info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCorum, Micah2018-05-13T21:04:37Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/33628Revistahttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/indexPRIhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||bakhtinianarevista@gmail.com2176-45732176-4573opendoar:2018-05-13T21:04:37Bakhtiniana - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
Cultivando a ambiguidade: considerações sobre questões de complexidade no discurso crioulo
title Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
spellingShingle Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
Corum, Micah
Creole discourse
Ambiguity
Simplicity and complexity
Discurso crioulo
Ambiguidade
Simplicidade e complexidade
title_short Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
title_full Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
title_fullStr Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
title_full_unstemmed Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
title_sort Cultivating Ambiguity: Notes on Issues of Complexity in Creole Discourse
author Corum, Micah
author_facet Corum, Micah
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Corum, Micah
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Creole discourse
Ambiguity
Simplicity and complexity
Discurso crioulo
Ambiguidade
Simplicidade e complexidade
topic Creole discourse
Ambiguity
Simplicity and complexity
Discurso crioulo
Ambiguidade
Simplicidade e complexidade
description This paper is a rejoinder to the dialogue concerning complexity and simplicity in pidgin and creole grammars. My position takes a chronotopic and unfinalized view of grammar, Bakhtinian notions that give crucial importance to temporal and spatial contexts in discussions about linguistic development-expansion and historicity of language use. I take a modular perspective and focus on a pragmatic component of grammar: ambiguity in discourse. Linguistic utterances that contain the phrasal verbs rip off and hot up are analyzed in the present study for their ambiguous[1], double-voicing features. My aim is to underscore the importance of recognizing double-voicing as a complex discursive strategy in Afro-Caribbean creole grammar. This feature and other non-salient, zero-marked constructions remain difficult to account for using current metrics of complexity versus simplicity. I invoke insights from Bakhtin and his theory of dialogism in the hope that it can aid our analysis of plurilingualism and the cultivation of ambiguity in creole discourse.[1] Cultivating ambiguity is a term borrowed from Faraclas and The Working Group on the Agency of Marginalized Peoples in the Emergence of the Afro-Atlantic Creoles (2016).
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