TY - BOOK ID - 38853471 TI - The Portuguese language continuum in Africa and Brazil AU - Álvarez López, Laura AU - Gonçalves, Perpétua AU - Avelar, Juanito PY - 2018 SN - 9789027201898 9789027263186 9027263183 9027201897 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Portuguese language KW - Dialectology KW - Brazil KW - Africa KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY KW - Portuguese language. KW - Portuguese. KW - Variation. KW - Africa. KW - Brazil. KW - Portugiesisch. KW - Sprachvariante. KW - Afrika. KW - Brasilien. KW - Romance languages KW - Variation KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:38853471 AB - "The Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis, sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil, due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum, and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used"-- ER -