Mobilian Jargon in Historiography: An Exercise in the Ethnography of Speaking

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Emanuel J. Dreschel, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Abstract

Patricia Galloway (2006: 225-244) made Mobilian Jargon the subject matter of a chapter in her recent book Practicing Ethnohistory – with several challenging conclusions about its structure, functions, and sociohistorical contexts that call for a response. My essay addresses fundamental misconceptions about this Muskogeanbased pidgin language, while raising some broader issues of documentation and analysis relevant to the historical sociolinguistics of greater Louisiana.

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Dreschel, Emanuel J. (2008) "Mobilian Jargon in Historiography: An Exercise in the Ethnography of Speaking," Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 33: No. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol33/iss1/3