Book Review: Caribbean discourses: Stylistic and critical discourse approaches to language use in the Caribbean DurgasinghRyanSelvon-RamkissoonNicha (eds), Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024; 364; pp.: ISBN 9783031450464, GBP 109.99.

Durgasingh and Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon's Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean is the edited collection's index itself.Among its lengthiest entries (those corresponding to at least 25 pages or page ranges) are Creole, identity, media, metaphor, power, representation and Trinidad and Tobago: a metric of the key thematic foci, prominent analytical approaches, and common case study sources across the book.To begin, editors Durgasingh and Ramkissoon introduce their collection as a redress to 'the lacunae of research focused on the [Caribbean] region's unique uses of linguistic structures in important aspects of socio-political/cultural life' (2), setting the tone for the five parts and 11 chapters to follow.Having developed from a 2021 digital conference on 'Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Use in the Caribbean', its contributors are wide-ranging, including specialists in educational linguistics, media studies and social sciences based in both the Caribbean region and across mainland Europe.Part I, 'Tracing the Development of Discourses in the Caribbean', follows with a contextualising introduction to the academic analysis of Caribbean discourse, first with Bettina Migge's overview of formal developments in Eastern Maroon Creole (predominantly spoken in Suriname and French Guiana), and then in Susanne Mühleisen's examination of identity management through code-mixing in disparate genres.The two chapters attest to a complex interplay between covert and overt prestige in diglossic societies, as Creole language use is vilified in some contexts and vaunted in others.