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Miriam Meyerhoff & James A. Walker , Bequia talk: St Vincent and the Grenadines . London : Battlebridge , 2013. Pp. vi, 136. Pb. £12.95.
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Bequia talk: St Vincent and the Grenadines shows what makes the language of the people of Bequia special by examining the way people on the island talk. It demonstrates the island people's distinctive ways of talking, examining their vocabulary, their ways of pronouncing words, and how they organize their sentences, in terms not only of what they share that sets them apart from other speakers of English, but also in terms of how they manifest regional and social differences on the island.
This book consists of seven chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 are...