creolizationn.
/ˌkriːəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkriələˈzeɪʃən/, /kriəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. The action or process of taking on any of various characteristics or aspects of Creole people, their culture, etc.; esp. the assimilation of aspects of another culture or cultures; hybridization of cultures. Also: the action or process of becoming naturalized to life in a colonized country.
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creolization1850
1850 B. Dowler in New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 7 July 67 Long urban residence (with or without having had yellow fever) is, in a sanitary sense, an equivalent to nativity, among the people of the city. It is a kind of naturalization, or rather creolization.
1890 Harper's Mag. Feb. 416/1 Those extraordinary influences of climate and environment which produce the phenomena of creolization.
1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 262 Lyttelton..recorded three brilliant Creole-styled versions of Tin Pan Alley songs..all..of which, by a process of ‘Creolization’, became better jazz than many a so-called New Orleans tune recorded..by revivalists.
1977 J. Watson Between Two Cultures v. 120 Creolisation took place in the very formation of Jamaica itself.
2000 D. Buisseret Creolization in Americas Introd. 9 In the postconquest Andes, Daniel Gade found a high degree of creolization among the folk dwellings—what he calls a ‘melding of traditions’.
2. Linguistics. The fact or process of assimilating or converting a language, dialect, etc., into a creole (Creole n. 2b), by contact with one or more other languages and the acquisition of native speakers; the conversion of a pidgin, a jargon, etc., into a creole, typically by the acquisition of native speakers.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > creole or mixed language > process of developing
creolization1926
pidginization1934
nativization1938
1926 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 4 115/2 The creolization of European languages in America.
1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. i. ii. 35 The complete Creolization of Afrikaans has been prevented by contact with the Dutch of the Bible and literature.
1969 Language 45 659 Its incipient creolization provides scholars with a unique opportunity to observe the dynamics of linguistic change.
2006 P. Eisenlohr Little India 13 Some researchers consider the linguistic process of creolization a useful metaphor or analogue to transnational cultural processes.
3. The adaptation of non-indigenous animals or plants (esp. crops) to local conditions (spec. in the Americas). Also: such adaptation through hybridization.
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1998 C. Bongie Islands & Exiles Notes 450 As Confiant points out, ‘... Creolization engages... all orders of reality, the human just as much as the animal and the vegetable’.
2000 D. Buisseret et al. Creolization Americas 15 Our model may still not be inclusive enough in its categories, for it has nothing to say about the creolization of flora and fauna.
2004 Plant Physiol. 134 885/2 These practices, which sustain and create diversity, include seed recycling, seed mixing, and creolization.
2011 E. Fitting Struggle for Maize v. 204 Criollos could in fact be the result of creolization between improved varieties and landraces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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