Foreword: Carolyn Cooper 4 Preface 13 Acknowledgements 16 Introduction: Clive Forrester, Nickesha Dawkins 18 Section 1: Linguistic Theory Chapter 1: Devonish's Conjecture relating the number, An, of 'allowable' sentences in a Creole/English speech community to n, the length of the sentences - Ewarth Thomas 25 Chapter 2: Phonetic variation in voiced stops in Moore Town - Shelome Gooden 41 Section 2: Language, Education, and Culture Chapter 3: School of Drama students' perceptions of Standard English: The impact of background on confidence levels in the use of language - Elizabeth Montoya-Steman 78 Chapter 4: Variability Across Repeated Productions in Bilingual Children - Sandy Abu El Adas, Tara McAllister, Karla Washington 101 Chapter 5: Caribbeanizing a Culturally Responsive Approach - Lisa Tomlinson 129 Chapter 6: The Slighted Language Skill: Advocating for Best Practice in Listening Instruction - Janice Jules 149 Chapter 7: Waa gwaan?: Jamaican language and technological orature in the creation of authentic African Diasporic identities in the U.S. hip hop generation - Renee Blake and Nickesha Dawkins 180 Section 3: Politics and Law Chapter 8: Political Cartoons of the 2008 General Elections in Barbados: A Rhetorical Perspective - Korah Belgrave 201 Chapter 9: Language Rights & The Inter-American Human Rights System: A Preliminary Examination - Alison Irvine-Sobers 262 Chapter 10: "Don't Say a Word": Interpreting Jamaican Idioms in a Toronto Murder Case - Clive Forrester 267.