Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
Author: International Conference On Pidgin And Creole Languages. 1968. Mona, Jamaique
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 552
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Atlantic Meets Pacific
Author: Francis Byrne
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9027252327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor review see: Peter Bakker, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 190-192.
Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9004363394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Author: Albert Valdman
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780783787336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPidginization and Creolization of Languages
Author: Dell Hymes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1971-01-02
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780521078337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays on the pidginization and creolization of language is taken from a conference held at The University of the West Indies in April 1968. Its editor, Dell Hymes, was an incredibly influential sociolinguist and anthropologist in his lifetime, president of the Linguistic Society of America (1982), the American Anthropological Association (1983) and the American Folklore Society. He was a pioneer of the sociolinguist movement, striving to find ways to connect language and speech to human relations and anthropological study. Within this collection of essays, the reader will find varied studies of pidgin and creole languages by academics considered leaders in their field, particularly at this time. The topics of these essays range from those exploring the employment of pidgin languages in specific territories, such as Vietnam, the West Indies and the US, to those essays looking at the formation and hybridization of pidgin and creole languages generally.
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Author: Arthur K. Spears
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1997-10-06
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9027275858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDestined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language contact phenomena (Section Two); a reinterpretation of the sources and genesis of grammatical aspects of Saramaccan and Atlantic creoles in general (Section Three); a reconsideration of the status of languages defying received definitions of pidgins and creoles (Section Four); and analyses of aspects of grammar that shed light on the issue of what a possible creole grammar is (Section Five).
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
Author: John Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521585811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
Pidgins and Creoles
Author: Jacques Arends
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1994-12-20
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9027299501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, Sranan, Berbice Dutch) and Part IV: Grammatical Features (such as TMA particles and auxiliaries, noun phrases, reflexives, serial verbs, fronting) can form the basis for further exploration. A concluding chapter draws together the different strands of argumentation, and the annotated list provides the background information on several hundred pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Diversity rather than unity is taken to be the central theme, and for the first time in an introduction to pidgins and creoles, the Atlantic creoles receive the attention they deserve. Pidgins are not treated as necessarily an intermediate step on the way to creoles, but as linguistic entities in their own right with their own characteristics. In addition to pidgins, mixed languages are treated in a separate chapter. Research on pidgin and creole languages during the past decade has yielded an abundance of uncovered material and new insights. This introduction, written jointly by the creolists of the University of Amsterdam, could not have been written without recourse to this new material.
Creolization and Contact
Author: Norval Smith
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001-12-31
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9027297711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of second language learning for theories of pidgin/creole genesis; critically discuss the notions levelling (koine formation) and convergence; the relation between types of contact situations and processes of crosslinguistic influence; as well as the linguistic consequences of the social structure of the plantation system. In addition to discussing English-, French-, and Dutch-related creoles, the papers cover a wide range of contact languages spoken throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe. The breadth and coverage makes this an indispensable title for research in the field of contact linguistics.
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
Author: Emanuel J. Drechsel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-27
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1107015103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.
