Creole integrated work speech, forbidden speech, and deferred speech into one musical tongue

Evidence

Direct, elementary speech, articulating the rudimentary language necessary to get work done; stifled speech, corresponding to the· silence of this world in which knowing how to read and write is forbidden; deferred or disguised speech, in which men and women who are gagged keep their words close. The Creole language integrated these three rnodes and made themjazz. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 414

Categorization

• DEFINE: Glissant’s tripartite schema of Plantation speech (direct, stifled, deferred) is a precise conceptual framework distinguishing kinds of forced utterance.
• XREF: The three modes of speech under oppression—direct, stifled, deferred/disguised—resonate with the ‘gagged’ subject themes traced in Foucault’s power/knowledge and the strategic irony question: deferred speech as proto-veiled communication. — connects to: Creole syntax loosens the boundaries between word classes inherited from French; Languages borrow semantic structures as well as sounds across contact; Creole speech integrated three modes of plantation expression into music — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 414 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Creole syntax loosens the boundaries between word classes inherited from French #expands (0.75)
• Languages borrow semantic structures as well as sounds across contact #expands (0.70)