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metaphors for the analysis of cultural processes within globalization and
transnational flow. This article argues, however, that although it may have served
as a useful heuristic in certain cases, most of creole linguistics has been grounded
in a set of assumptions and procedures that now look increasingly doubtful, both
within linguistics and anthropology more generally. After some critical comments on
politics and methodology within this subdisciplinary area, there is an overview of
the challenge presented by a number of larger shifts in language study, and the
article concludes with a socio-linguistic analysis of situated interaction which, we
argue, provides a much better framework for understanding the dynamics of syncretic
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