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The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and punishments'. A key component of congo games is a special dialect, the hablar en congos, which is employed by a subset of the congos in each settlement. The present study investigates the congo dialect from a linguistic point of view along two dimensions. The first involves deliberate phonetic, syntactic, and semantic distortion as part of the overall spirit of of burlesque and ridicule that surrounds Panamanian Carnival. The second is the retention of earlier, partially creolized Afro-Hispanic language forms which may still be extracted from contemporary congo speech. These Afro-Hispanic vestiges are of key importance to monogenetic theories of Afro-Romance creolization as Panamanian congo speech provides examples of unique creolized Spanish. Contents 1. Introduction: the negros congos of Panama 2. Syntactic and semantic characteristics of congo speech 3. Phonological characteristics of congo dialect 4. Congo dialect and Panamanian Spanish: phonology 5. The possible African basis for congo speech References, Appendix.
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Randy Breeden
reviewed The Speech of the Negros Congos of Panama on June 15, 2021
The Speech of the Negros Congos of Panama
Out of the 13 studies collected in this volume I have read only 7, because the others weren't relevant to my field of study. But out of these 7, only one was interesting. The others just kept repeating the blatantly obvious, to the point that I was amazed that the authors even felt the need to write it. The article about persuasion did not teach me anything new, neither did the manipulation in newspapers, etc. You don't even have to have any knowledge in the field and you'll already know the point of the studies by simply reading their title. Parts of some studies were just summaries of works by others, in one case the majority of the study was about work by Grice and others, contributing nothing new. The book was also plagued by typos and errors or random words appearing out of nowhere, probably as a result of shitty editing. The language was weird, the book being written mainly by Germans in English. Many studies supplied examples from German but either outright translated them or provided translations in the annex, except for one important definition (linguisticaly oriented definition of stereotypes) that was for some reason left in German with no translation whatsoever, which seems very odd in an otherwise completely English book. I had to hit up a German major friend to help me with that.
The only thing worthwhile was Teun van Dijk's study - although it doesn't bring anything new if you have read his book Discourse and Power before.
I don't usually rate non-fiction or textbooks but this one has left such a foul taste that I have to rate it...
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