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creolized, creolised [ˈkriːəˌlaɪzd] adj
(Linguistics / Languages) (of a language) incorporating a considerable range of features from one or more unrelated languages, as the result of contact between language communities Translations creolized adj → kreolisiert How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Creolized culture implies mutual exchange and transfer, a flow of meanings in continuous movement, breaking up old relations and setting up new connections (Hannerz 1987, 1996). 68) And surely it is more difficult for an otherwise politically stable, established and creolized slave society to have been "Igboized" than one that was still just a few generations from its origins. Ambivalence toward Africa as Cape Verde's "original" and distant homeland, as expressed in Dionisios's performance of Um suco natural, is perhaps what keeps performances relevant to Cape Verde's intensely creolized culture. |
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