LANGUAGE, LANGUAGE: THE GAMING OF PHONOLOGY AND STRUCTURE By Paul Bourne Posted October 4, 2006 08:28:21 When is Language, a Language: Is Creole a language? By Paul Andrew Bourne Over the decades, the elitists among us have continued to "scuff" at Creole (Patois) as a language. This is because of its "mediocritic" origin and the social class associated with its usage. In order that finesse is brought to this discourse, a position must be provided on what constitutes a language. In a...

When is Language, a Language: Is Creole a language? By Paul Andrew Bourne Over the decades, the elitists among us have continued to "scuff" at Creole (Patois) as a language. This is because of its "mediocritic" origin and the social class associated with its usage. In order that finesse is brought to this discourse, a position must be provided on what constitutes a language. In addition, we must be able to comparatively analyze those factors in order to establish whether or not Creole is...

BY PAUL ANDREW BOURNE, M.Sc.; B.Sc.(Hon); Dip. Edu. ABSTRACT The development discourse continues to unfold from its genesis in economic growth (i.e. growth) to having multi-dimensional tenets outside of the classical growth model and the Keynesian growth theory, which is human capital formation. Westerners, for example, Todaro, United Nations, Haq and Rapley see development completely different from the classical and the Keynesian scholars. The classicalists and Keynesian economist...

Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc.; B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu.[/B] The hegemonic categorization of the Jamaican landscape is primarily the justifiable reason for the sophisticated demonstrations and social hemorrhaging. Many of those happenings are caused from the lack of monologue of the business constituents. This group of elitists has exponentially benefited from playing the proletariat class. They have not offered their clientele the respect of voice on matters of social concerns or political mi...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc.; B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon (Mishkin 2003: 11), which is created when ‘more money is chasing too few goods’. In a situation where goods and services are scarce, an increase in money supply will only fuel a higher valuation of the same commodities without a corresponding change in the production function (i.e. capital formation- materials, stocks, work-in-progress, finished goods). With this reality, businesses and government are forced...

THE BLACK THINKER: An examination of W. E. Du Bois’ Life Paul Andrew Bourne ABSTRACT The historical contributions, significance and potency of a particular sect of people within our space appear to lack impetus, whenever we begin to examine, analyze, and/or delve into the contribution of the same people to various arenas of world history. It seems that a black force covers the inputs of Blacks in our annals. The issues of racism, colonialism, separatism and apartheid become ...