Editing Jamaican English (section)

==Sociolinguistics==
There are several [[Variety (linguistics)|language varieties]] that have significantly impacted the Jamaican dialect of English. English was introduced into Jamaica in 1655,<ref name="Justus 39">{{Cite journal |last=Justus |first=Joyce Bennett |date=January 1978 |title=Language and National Integration: The Jamaican Case |journal=Ethnology |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=39–51 |doi=10.2307/3773278 |jstor=3773278}}</ref> because of British colonisation. [[British English]] was spread through post-primary education, and through British teachers that immigrated to Jamaica.<ref name="Justus 39"/> Standard English in Jamaica conflated with the British standard.<ref name="Mair 31–58">{{Cite journal|last=Mair|first=Christian|date=1 June 2002|title=Creolisms in an emerging standard: Written English in Jamaica|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233697602|journal=English World-Wide|volume=23|pages=31–58|doi=10.1075/eww.23.1.03mai}}</ref> Individuals who speak the standard variety are often considered to be of a higher social class; the people who speak more standard English than patois are known as “uptown” <ref name="Justus 39"/> Also, [[American English]] has contributed to the Jamaican English dialect. These impacts can be traced to the development of stronger social and economic ties with the United States,{{when|date=October 2024}} the popularity of U.S. cultural offerings, including film, music, and [[televised]] dramas and comedies and tourism.<ref>Rosenfelder, Ingrid (2009). [https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/fedora/objects/freidok:9336/datastreams/FILE1/content "Sociophonetic variation in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-Jamaica]" (PDF). PhD dissertation, University of Freiburg.</ref> [[Jamaican Patois]] is another source of influence on Jamaican English.<ref name="Mair 31–58" /> Many rural homes are monolingually Patois.