Nation language
"Nation language" is the term coined by scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite that is now commonly preferred to describe the use of non-standard English in the work of writers from the Caribbean and the African diaspora, as opposed to the traditional designation of it as "dialect", which Brathwaite considered carries pejorative connotations that are inappropriate and limiting. In the words of Brathwaite, considered the authority of note on nation language and a key exemplar of its use: We in the Caribbean have a [...] kind of plurality: we have English, which is the imposed language on much of the archipelago.