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Creole Analysis Essay

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Method In this section, I will juxtapose two "performances" by Bob Marley analysing the syntactical usage of Jamaican Creole in respect to Standard English and then show the results of the comparison of these two performances in the section Results. Data Features of Jamaican Creole. To fully comprehend the analysis in the Appendices, here are some syntactic features of Creole Languages (based from Schneider (2011)). Not all features are listed here, however, the ones made notable in the analysis have been explained. • Copula retention, absence, locative, or equative. The copula is either retained – “Him a go”, left out (absence) “Him go”, locative (in the form of de), or equative (commonly replacing is). • Tense marker. Tense is not marked and has no context (most forms presented in present tense - …show more content…

The transcriptions were also completed by the author of this paper to eliminate any variances of understanding. Results Features of Jamaican Creole The two ‘performance’ pieces were analysed in comparison to Standard English. Each marker of Jamaican Creole was highlighted respectively to colour (See Appendix A and B). The following are the results of each analysis. Is This Love. As shown in Appendix A, the features of Jamaican Creole are almost non-existent in the song. With only one copula replacement, and two subject/verb agreement changes, there is not much to note with this song. Interview. (See Appendix B) There are multiple features of Jamaican Creole shown in the analysis. With 18 Copula markers, 9 Polysemic Pronouns, 7 Tense markers, 5 Negation markers, 13 Polysemic Prepositions, and 6 Subject/Verb agreement markers, the interview ranges in form from the Acrolect right down to the Basilect (Standard English to Jamaican Creole respectively).

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