Definition of Creolization

1. Noun. (linguistics) the process of a pidgin rapidly expanding its vocabulary and grammatical rules, ultimately becoming a creole. ¹

2. Noun. (Trinidad and Tobago) of Indo-Trinidadians, the process of assimilation into the dominant Creole culture. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Creolization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Creolization

creola bodies
creole
creole-fish
creoles
creolian
creolians
creolin
creolins
creolise
creolised
creolises
creolising
creolist
creolistics
creolists
creolization (current term)
creolizations
creolize
creolized
creolizes
creolizing
creology
creophagy
creos
creosol
creosols
creosote
creosote bush
creosoted
creosotelike

Literary usage of Creolization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to by Richard R. Wilk (2006)
"In the 1980s, partially because of prominent Caribbean scholars working in England like Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall, the idea that creolization is ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
""City creolization is not peculiar to New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, Havana, ... creolization in the city, with or without having had yellow fever, ..."

3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1854)
"creolization in a city, whether native or acquired, will exercise its ... He says, "creolization in the city, with or without having had yellow fever, ..."

4. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communicationby Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller by Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller (2006)
"... Apter 1991) or the process of creolization (Mintz and Price 1992; ... 1997, 2000, 2002) careful examination of family land and creolization demonstrates ..."

5. The Translator as Intercultural Mediator by Eleonora Federici (2006)
"... novel which stands as an example of an enriching creolization and crossbreeding between cultures. It is this creolization, this metissage to borrow ..."

6. An Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment by Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal, Paul Black (1992)
"creolization in genetic theory. Paper presented at the International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles, January 13-18, 1975. Honolulu. ..."

7. Bolivia: Geographical Sketch, Natural Resources, Laws, Economic Conditions (1904)
"In this huddle of different strains, some show results by which creolization has produced the so-called "American man;" others display distinctively ..."

8. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods: Uniting Science and by Barry Pound (2003)
"... 'Agrarian creolization: The Ethnobiology, History, Culture and Politics of West African Rice' in Ellen, R and Fukin, R (eds) Redefining Nature, Berg, ..."

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