Pijin Blong Yumi
Author: Linda Simons
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
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Pacific Languages in Education
Author: France Mugler
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789820201231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This collection of articles and interviews explores policy, practice and attitudes relating to the use of Pacific languages in education systems of most Pacific Island countries and territories, from pre-school to tertiary level. It records history ; it deals with current attitudes and prejudices ; and it focuses attention on perceived problems with the medium of education in many parts of the region."--Back cover
Vietnam to Thieves’ Island
Author: Jim Collins
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1543748597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is full of anecdotes of people and events encountered over a lifetime of sailing in South East Asia, Australia, and the Middle East—treasure hunters, magicians, the American Mayor of Osaka, smugglers, a brave flier, and lone sailors.
Wealth of the Solomons
Author: Judith A. Bennett
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1987-05-01
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780824810788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDu site de l'éd.: "The history of the Solomon Islands is in itself an intriguing story, and Dr. Bennett tells it more than well. The depth and breadth of the work is impressive in at least two respects. First, it covers events in the Solomons from initial European contact in the middle-1500s to the country's emergence as an independent and sovereign state in 1978. Second, all facets of colonial history are covered; to name only a few: the early contact period, the whaling trade, the development of plantations, the nature of British colonial rule, and missionization. Considering the scope of this volume, it represents a definitive history of the Solomon Islands, and it will remain so for many years to come."
Language, Education, and Development
Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780198239666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin, as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers.
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
Author: John A. Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780521359405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.
Contrastive Sociolinguistics
Author: Marlis Hellinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-09-08
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 3110811553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
The Multilingual God
Author: Steve Fortosis
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Published: 2012-06-28
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1645080382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome decades ago the prospect of reaching the entire world with the gospel appeared very dim indeed. In a world population that was virtually exploding with growth, how could Christians begin to reach the billions of fellow humans? Then missionaries began mastering the multiplied languages on earth, placing the Bible on paper, making recordings of the gospel, and beaming the Word of God out on radio and television waves. A portion of the Bible was translated painstakingly into over a thousand languages. The entire Bible was translated into several hundred. There was reason to be hopeful. Missionaries taught nationals how to plant churches. Then nationals started planting churches, and churches begat churches . . . Bible translators had and continue to play a crucial role in the mission of reaching every people with the gospel, and this book describes how. Follow them into the fascinating, exciting world of Bible translation.
The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Author: Jeff Siegel
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-02-28
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0191527130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins and creoles. It assesses the current state of research and examines aspects of current theories and approaches that have excited much controversy and debate. The book answers questions such as: How valid is the notion of a pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle? Why are many features of pidgins and creoles simple in formal terms compared to other languages? And what is the origin of the grammatical innovations in expanded pidgins and creoles - linguistic universals, conventional language change, the influence of features of languages in the contact environment, or a mix of two or more factors? In addressing these issues, the author looks at research on processes of second language acquisition and use, including simplification, overgeneralization, and language transfer. He shows how these processes can account for many of the characteristics of contact languages, and proposes linguistic and sociolinguistic constraints on their application in language contact. His analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies from Pidgin Fijian, Melanesian Pidgin, Hawai'i Creole, New Caledonian Tayo and Australian Kriol, which he uses as well to assess the merits of competing theories of language genesis. Professor Siegel also considers his research's wider implications for linguistic theory.
