Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage

Aceto, Michael; Allsopp, Richard; Allsopp, Jeannette

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“…Derived from the Dutch word “Du bovenlander [or] ‘upcountry man’ (i.e. people dwelling upriver)”, the Creolese term encapsulated the longer history of ethno‐racial mixing central to the world of hinterland exploration and exploitation; it bound the material and imagined pathways that connected people in the hinterland to the coastal plantations (Allsopp 2003:113; Peretz 2023: 20‐1).…”

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“…A pillar of Guyanese social performance, gyaaf is part of a wider field of sociability, discursive exchange, and epistemological struggle not only in Latin America and the Caribbean but also wider Atlantic and Black geographies constructed by the politics of colonial and postcolonial labour migration (Abrams 1970; Allsopp 2003; Cruickshank 1916; Edmondson 2022; Etherington 2022; McTurk 1891; Nakhid‐Chatoor et al. 2018; Ogborn 2019; Putnam 2014; Turner 1993; Vété‐Congolo 2016; White 2000).…”

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“…3 3 The Guyanese Creole or Creolese used in this text faithfully attempts to reproduce the linguistic constructions of my interlocutors with the help of Charlene Wilkinson, Coordinator of the Guyana Languages Unit at the University of Guyana, Turkeyne Campus. Additionally, I use dictionaries composed by Devonish and Thompson (2010) and Allsopp (2003). …”

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Black Water Politics: Navigating Oral History, Memory, and Power Along the Rivers of the Guyanese Northwest

Tamboli¹

2023

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This article enriches the narrative of ethno‐racial politics in Guyana by analysing the lives and histories of people who live and work in the Guyanese Northwest. It narrates how histories of escape, freedom, and fortune—along with the associated development of the Guyanese interior as an extractive space—were essential to understanding the broader forces that shaped working peoples’ mobility in the region. Using a combined method of conducting oral history, memory analysis, ethnography, participant observation, and archival research, the article demonstrates how histories of mobility (or lack of) and notions of being Black produced—and were produced through—the gendered historical politics of socio‐cultural mixture. The borderland space between the Caribbean and Amazonia, this article argues, helps deepen and recontextualise aspects of the divisive political history of Guyana.

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Black Water Politics: Navigating Oral History, Memory, and Power Along the Rivers of the Guyanese Northwest

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2023

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“…The Guiana Shield (which includes Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and parts of Venezuela and Brazil), is rich in minerals, including gold, bauxite, and diamonds, that attract both legal and illegal mining activities. Locally referred to as "pork-knockers, " deriving from miners' appetite for pickled pork, miners in Guyana typically are from Guyana or neighbouring countries [5][6][7]. Miners often first meet at "landings" (typically road junctions or river crossings), which serve as hubs for miners to access the interior, get supplies, and socialize.…”

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Digging for care-seeking behaviour among gold miners in the Guyana hinterland: a qualitative doer non-doer analysis of social and behavioural motivations for malaria testing and treatment

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Sohail

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Malar J

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Background Although Guyana has made significant progress toward malaria control, limited access to malaria testing and treatment services threatens those gains. Mining activities create breeding environments for mosquitoes, and the migrant and mobile mining populations are hard to reach with information and services. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has trained volunteers to test and treat malaria cases in remote regions. However, it remains unclear how miners perceive these testers, the services they provide, or what their malaria care-seeking behaviour is in general. To better address these challenges, Breakthrough ACTION Guyana and MoPH conducted qualitative research from October to November 2018 in Regions 7 and 8 in Guyana. Methods A total of 109 individuals, 70 miners, 17 other mining camp staff, and 22 other key stakeholders (e.g. community health workers, pharmacists, and regional leadership), participated in semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. Results were derived using a framework analysis, with an adjusted doer and non-doer analysis, and organized using the integrated behaviour framework. Results Miners sought MoPH-approved services because of close geographic proximity to testing services, a preference for public service treatment, and a desire to correctly diagnose and cure malaria rather than just treat its symptoms. Those who chose to initiate self-treatment—using unregulated medications from the private and informal sector—did so out of convenience and the belief that self-treatment had worked before. Miners who completed the full MoPH-approved treatment understood the need to complete the treatment, while those who prematurely stopped treatment did so because of medication side effects and a desire to feel better as soon as possible. Conclusion Reasons why miners do and do not pursue malaria testing and treatment services are diverse. These results can inform better MoPH programming and new solutions to improve malaria outcomes in Guyana.

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“…The distinction between informal and anti-formal styles follows ideas laid own inAllsopp (1996).6 This study reports on the results of a comparative lexical-content analysis of Brown and LOB, the daring summary of which deserves quotation: "Wrapping up the whole analysis [...] in one wild generalization, we may propose a picture of US culture in 1961-masculine to the point of machismo, militaristic, dynamic and actuated by high ideals, driven by technology, activity and enterprise-contrasting with one of British culture as more given to temporizing and talking, to benefitting from wealth rather than creating it, and to family and emotional life, less actuated by matters of substance than by considerations of outward status." (p. 44-45).…”

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Parallel Corpora: A Real-Time Approach to the Study of Language Change in Progress

Mair

1997

Corpus Based Studies in English

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The paper draws data from four matching one-million word corpora, namely Brown (US, 1961), LOB (GB, 1961), Frown (US, 1992 and FLOB (GB, 1991), in order to provide an integrated description of synchronic (regional and stylistic) variation and short-term diachronic change in written Standard English. The analysis of a fairly large number of morphosyntactic variables shows that instances of direct structural change are rather rare in the period under review. Nevertheless there are numerous statistically significant diachronic developments which, taken together, provide evidence for a coherent discourse-pragmatic trend, the 'colloquialisation' of the norms of written English. This linguistic development is argued to be driven by a more general sociocultural trend, the shift of public taste towards greater informality.

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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage

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Black Water Politics: Navigating Oral History, Memory, and Power Along the Rivers of the Guyanese Northwest

Black Water Politics: Navigating Oral History, Memory, and Power Along the Rivers of the Guyanese Northwest

Digging for care-seeking behaviour among gold miners in the Guyana hinterland: a qualitative doer non-doer analysis of social and behavioural motivations for malaria testing and treatment

Parallel Corpora: A Real-Time Approach to the Study of Language Change in Progress

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