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| Author | : Damaris Schäfer |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
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| Author | : John W. M. Verhaar |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9027230234 |
The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out.One is that of a revived interest in substratology, both for Tok Pisin and for Bislama. Another is what in fact amounts to a change in perspective from universalism, as supposedly competitive with the substratological orientation, towards a generalist approach to typology, which reduces the apparent polarity, from a theoretical point of view. A third is the pervasive interest of contributors in wider language issues in the social and political life of Papua New Guinea.These interests go back to the linguistic and social experience of the participants, most of whom have a long record of living among the people whose languages they have studied on a day-to-day basis, and to the relative remoteness of their inspiration from the more theoretical and perhaps ultimately untestable issues which surround the universalist approach and its claims for a bioprogram foundation for language.
| Author | : Darrell T. Tryon |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 2011-05-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311089968X |
Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment.
| Author | : Rick J. Goulden |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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| Author | : Babette Treptow |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 2010-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 3640683293 |
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: Pidgin and creole languages, once described as "broken English", "bastardized jargons" or "marginal languages", became objects of serious research for many professional linguists from all over the world. They have generally been accepted as new and independent languages rather than corrupted versions of other, so-called higher, languages (cf. Holm 2000:1). Pidgins and creoles became central to linguistic studies on first and second language acquisition, language linguistic universals, language change and language contact (cf. Todd 2001: 524). McMahon (1994: 253) points out that there are "[a]pproximately 200 pidgin and creole languages spoken today, mostly in West Africa, the Carribean and the South Pacific." Tok Pisin, a national language of Papua New Guinea, which is located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean, can be considered a pidgin/creole language1. In many respects, it shares the linguistic and socio-historical features of other pidgins and creoles spoken around the world. However, Tok Pisin is unusual with regard to its linguistic development, which did not take as much time as in the case of most other pidgin and creole languages. Moreover, linguists are eagerly interested in studying this contact language because its historical development is precisely and accurately documented (cf. Mühlhäusler 1990: 177-181). The pidgin language Tok Pisin has been introduced in the course of this semester ́s seminar Contact Situations: English-Related Pidgins and Creoles. I was part of the presentation group on Tok Pisin. Already then, my interest was raised. Thus, I was concerned with literature and information about the pidgin language before I began to write this term paper. This term paper raises the question whether and to what extent Tok Pisin gains influence in Papua New Guinea over t
| Author | : Silja Recknagel |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2008-02-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 3638007235 |
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: This essay aims at taking a closer look at the Pacific pidgin Tok Pisin. Especially the development of the pidgin into a creole will be considered in the following text. The chapter on the history of Tok Pisin is preceded by an excursus on the conditions of language contact and the definition and genesis of pidgins in general. The history and thus the development into a creole as well as the current situation of Tok Pisin is completed with some examples of the lexicon of the creole. Here I laid certain emphasis on the different origins of English influence on Tok Pisin, as the social backgrounds of those who introduced the first form of the pidgin, the foreigner talk, are still reflected in the Tok Pisin vocabulary. Additionally I paid regard to the German influence on the pidgin and the linguistically changed situation under Australian administration after WWI. This part of the essay includes a brief paragraph on the sociolinguistic conditions and the conscious use of speech acts with in the pidgin. Finally I tried to give a rather short overview on the phonological and morphological features of Tok Pisin as well as on its grammar.
| Author | : Silja Recknagel |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 30 |
| Release | : 2008-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 3638911691 |
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay aims at taking a closer look at the Pacific pidgin Tok Pisin. Especially the development of the pidgin into a creole will be considered in the following text. The chapter on the history of Tok Pisin is preceded by an excursus on the conditions of language contact and the definition and genesis of pidgins in general. The history and thus the development into a creole as well as the current situation of Tok Pisin is completed with some examples of the lexicon of the creole. Here I laid certain emphasis on the different origins of English influence on Tok Pisin, as the social backgrounds of those who introduced the first form of the pidgin, the foreigner talk, are still reflected in the Tok Pisin vocabulary. Additionally I paid regard to the German influence on the pidgin and the linguistically changed situation under Australian administration after WWI. This part of the essay includes a brief paragraph on the sociolinguistic conditions and the conscious use of speech acts with in the pidgin. Finally I tried to give a rather short overview on the phonological and morphological features of Tok Pisin as well as on its grammar.
| Author | : Terry Crowley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sources, he examines the language's labor history, and discusses the evolution of its grammatical construction.
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| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : English language |
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Fr. Frank Mihalic, 1916-2001, spent 50 years as a Catholic missionary in Papua New Guinea, as an educator, and as a promoter of Tok Pisin literacy. His key work on Tok Pisin, the 'Mihalic', is his Grammar and dictionary of Neo-Melanesian (1959), republished as The Jacaranda dictionary and grammar of Melanesian Pidgin (1971), among many smaller guides and articles. He was the founding editor of the Tok Pisin newspaper Wantok, today published weekly in Port Moresby by Word Publishing. Tok Pisin, spoken throughout Papua New Guinea and a companion language to English and about 800 vernacular languages, is one of at least four extant Pacific pidgin languages: the others are Bislama in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands Pijin in the Solomon Islands, and Torres Strait Creole, also known as Broken, in the Torres Strait. Tok Pisin has about five million speakers of whom one million may learn it as a first language whether or not they achieve fluency in their own vernaculars in early childhood, or in English through exposure at school. This is a collaborative project to revise the 'Mihalic' - you can help if you speak, read, grew up with, research or have anything to do with Tok Pisin - and it is in its early stages. In the web site we have been using since 2001, topics exist for only a few of the expected 4000-5000 headwords that will be dealt with eventually.
| Author | : Miriam Meyerhoff |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2008-09-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902729075X |
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
