TOK Pisin I Go We? Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, 18-21 September, 1973
Title | TOK Pisin I Go We? Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, 18-21 September, 1973 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth A. McElhanon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Pidgin English |
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Tok Pisin i go we?
Title | Tok Pisin i go we? PDF eBook |
Author | K. A. McElhanon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Language and languages |
ISBN |
Tok Pisin
Title | Tok Pisin PDF eBook |
Author | K. A. MacElhanon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1975 |
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Social Lives in Language Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities
Title | Social Lives in Language Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Meyerhoff |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
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.
New Guinea and Neighboring Areas
Title | New Guinea and Neighboring Areas PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen A. Wurm |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2019-11-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110820773 |
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses 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 scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Sociolinguistics Around the World
Title | Sociolinguistics Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Martin J Ball |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2009-12-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135261059 |
Offers a survey of research trends in sociolinguistics around the world. This work focuses on traditional variationist sociolinguistics and on the areas of bi- and multilingualism together with diglossia and code-switching, language and culture, language and power and language planning.
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Title | The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Kean Spears |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027252416 |
Destined 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).