Creolization is the open-ended process by which languages and cultures brought into contact, often by force as under Caribbean slavery, interact and transform into new forms. Its outcomes cannot be predicted from the sources that entered the encounter.
- Entry typeKey concept
- Category of its source unitParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainAcross Cultures
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Entry type
Key concept
Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.