Da Kine Talk
Author: Elizabeth Ball Carr
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2019-03-31
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0824881249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter. "Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dialectal forms--speech that captures the flavor of Hawaii's multiracial community and reflects the successes (and failures) of immigrants from both East and West in learning to communicate in English.