Linguistic Variation and Change in the Portuguese of São Tomé

Bouchard presents a dissertation focusing on the variety of Portuguese spoken in Sao Tome, the capital of Sao Tome and Principe. The objective of the study is to investigate the emergence of a Santomean variety of Portuguese, with special reference to rhotics and subject pronoun expression, and to c...

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Published inJournal of portuguese linguistics Vol. 17; no. 1; p. 1
Main Author Bouchard, Marie-Eve
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lisbon Open Library of Humanities 23.04.2018
Edicoes Colibri
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Dissertation Abstract
Ideology
Language change
Language shift
Language variation
null subject languages
Portuguese language
Rhotics
Santomean Portuguese
Subject Pronoun Expression
variationist sociolinguistics
Sao Tome & Principe
Subject Pronoun Expression
Santomean Portuguese
variationist sociolinguistics
language variation
null subject languages
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ISSN2397-5563
1645-4537
2397-5563
DOI10.5334/jpl.192

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Summary:Bouchard presents a dissertation focusing on the variety of Portuguese spoken in Sao Tome, the capital of Sao Tome and Principe. The objective of the study is to investigate the emergence of a Santomean variety of Portuguese, with special reference to rhotics and subject pronoun expression, and to contrast Santomean Portuguese with other varieties of Portuguese. In a larger context, it also explores the social and ideological phenomena that explain the linguistic choices, linguistic change, and language shift in Sao Tome and Principe.
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ISSN:2397-5563
1645-4537
2397-5563
DOI:10.5334/jpl.192