Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific - Maritime Polynesian Pidgin Before Pidgin English

Informationen zum Autor Emanuel J. Drechsel is a senior faculty member of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and has regularly taught courses in linguistic anthropology, ethnohistory, and related topics. He has long been interested in non-European pidgins, and is the author of a well-received case study entitled 'Mobilian Jargon' (1997) of greater Louisiana. His more recent research has focused on the eastern Pacific. Klappentext This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. Zusammenfassung This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Questions, Theories, and Methods of Historical Sociolinguistics: 1. Introduction; 2. Maritime Polynesian Pidgin and Pidgin and Creole linguistics; 3. Ethnohistory of speaking as a historical-sociolinguistic methodology; Part II. Historical Attestations of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin (MPP): 4. Emergence, stabilization, and expansion; 5. Resilience against depidginization and relexification; 6. Survival in niches; Part III. Structure, Function, and History of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin: 7. Linguistic patterns; 8. History and social functions; 9. Conclusions: linguistic, sociohistorical, and theoretical implications.

Product details

• Authors: Emanuel J. Drechsel, Emanuel J. (University of Hawaii Drechsel, Drechsel Emanuel J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107015104
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01510-4
• No. of pages: 349
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact; Cambridge Approaches to Langua; Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Dialect, slang and jargon, Oceanic and Polynesian languages