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.
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 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.
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.
An Introduction to the Languages of the World
Author: Anatole Lyovin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780195081169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is designed to introduce students to the variety of languages of the world.
Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas
Author: Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-02-11
Total Pages: 1903
ISBN-13: 3110819724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
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."
