Review of Playing with Languages: Children and Change in a Caribbean village: by Amy Paugh

In her beautifully written account of child language socialization in rural Dominica, Amy L. Paugh explores the role that children play in the maintenance of Patwa, an endangered language of creole origin, and makes a brilliant attempt to uncover children’s agency and their remarkable contribution to the process of language preservation. In late 1970s, the postcolonial government of Dominica announced Patwa an endangered minority language and turned it from the language associated with backwardness and slavery into a symbol of cultural heritage.