@article{2857b9e72a204befb8f2e59c705f063e,
title = "Creole Practices as Prescriptive Guidelines for Language Didactics?: A Selective Overview of Glissant's Thoughts on Language and Social Identity",
abstract = "This article presents some of Glissant{\textquoteright}s thoughts about the status and usageof the Creole language in relation to French and the consequences for the socialimaginary in Martinique and in the Caribbean. The author formulatesthree thematic focal points: Archipelagic thinking, creolisation and dynamicchanges of language forms in a context of power and resistance and, as athird point, the right to remain {\textquoteleft}opaque{\textquoteright} and the distinction between languageform and {\textquoteleft}langage{\textquoteright}. The author argues that we may detect a descriptive anda prescriptive dimension in Glissant{\textquoteright}s thinking about language. In the followingsection, the author introduces different sociolinguistic studies of languagepractices in Martinique and the Caribbean giving a particular attentionto the school system. The section ends with a brief discussion of how didacticsin language teaching intersects with Glissant{\textquoteright}s thinking. The conclusionpresents a proposition of how Glissant{\textquoteright}s thought may inspire sociolinguisticsand didactics.",
author = "Heidi Bojsen",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.16993/karib.20",
language = "English",
volume = "1",
pages = "79--105",
journal = "Karib - Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies",
issn = "1894-8421",
publisher = "Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen and the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Uppsala",
number = "1",
}