Ronald Kephart Publications
Books
"Broken
English": The Creole Language of Carriacou. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2000.
Meeting
Anthropology Phase to Phase. (co-authored with B. Graber, R. Skelton, R. Rowlett,
and S. Brown). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Publishers, 2000.
Book chapters
Creole English on Carriacou: A sketch and some implications.
Contact
Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean.
edited by Aceto and Williams. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003.
Latin America and the Caribbean. Race
and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Focus on the United States and the World. Edited by Raymond Scupin. Prentice Hall. 2003.
Caribbean Creole English. Facts
About the World's Languages. Edited
by J. Garry and C. Rubino. New York: H. W. Wilson. 2001.
Using Creole to teach reading in Carriacou. Language,
Blacks & Gypsies: Languages Without a Written Tradition and their Role in
Education. Edited by T. Acton and M.
Dalphinis. London: Whiting & Birch. 2000.
Reading Creole English does not destroy your brain cells.
Pidgins, Creoles, and Nonstandard
Dialects in Education, edited by Jeff
Siegel. Applied Linguistics Association of Australia,
1993.
Bilingual aspects of language in a creole community. Bilingualism:
Social Issues and Policy
Implications, edited by Andrew W. Miracle.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
Carriacou Creole English: A problem in phonology and
morpho-syntax for students of anthropological linguistic field methods. Language
Structure Discovery Methods, by M. J.
Hardman and Shoko Saito Hamano Gainesville: Mimeo. 1981; revised 1982, 1983,
1987, 1989., 1992.
Articles
Encyclopedia
of Anthropology, edited by H. James Birx (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006). My
entries include a long essay on Language, and shorter entries on Emics, Ethnosemantics,
Etics, Generative Grammar, Phonetics, Phonology, Protolanguage, and Universals
in Language.
"Dem Wod Mo Saf": Materials for Reading Creole
English. ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication
Skills, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Number ED 248, 658. April 1992.
Ecology of Language in Carriacou. Annals of the
Southeastern Council on Latin
American Studies, VolumeXXIII, March 1992.
pp. 110-24.
Creole French in Carriacou, Grenada: Texts and Commentary. Topics
in Caribbean Anthropology, a
special publication of the Florida Journal of
Anthropology, Number 7, volume
16, 1991.
Verbal Categories in Carriacou Creole English. SECOL Review
10:2 (Summer 1986). pp. 116-130.
"It have More Soft Words." Carriacou Regatta
Programme. Summer 1986.
Genitival Constructions in Two Caribbean Creoles, Florida
Journal of Anthropology, 9:2 (1984).
Christmas in Carriacou. Diálogo, newsletter published by the Center for Latin American
Studies, University of Florida, November 1979.
Reviews
(Forthcoming) Language in the USA: Themes for the
Twenty-first Century, edited by Edward
Finegan and John Rickford (Cambridge 2004). This review will appear in an
upcoming issue of the Kluwer journal Language Policy.
The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies
in Childhood and School Cultures, by Anne
Haas Dyson. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003. Journal
of Linguistic Anthropology vol. 15 number 2 (December 2005). Pp.
286-287.
Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation
in the Late Nineteenth Century, by Faith
Smith. Published in Wadabagei:
A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas,
Vol. 8 No. 3 (Fall 2005). Pp. 113-16.
Language and Species,
by Derek Bickerton. Published in American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 4, Number 3 (1991). pp. 411-13.
Language, Race, and Social Class in Howell's America, by Elsa Nettels. Published in Mississippi
Quarterly XLII: 2 (Spring 1989). pp. 211-14.
The Biology and Evolution of Language, by Philip Lieberman. Published in Florida
Journal of Anthropology 13:1-2 (1988). pp.
53-4.
Literary in Theory and Practice, by Brian V. Street. Published in American
Anthropologist 88:4 (December 1986).
Pp. 1023-4.
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2006.