Development and Stages of Pidgins and Creoles towards Decreolization. A Phonological Analysis

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Rostock (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Enriching English, language: English, abstract: First, I will briefly portray the emergence of pidgin and creole languages and their development towards the post-creole continuum. I will examine the different types of pidgin-creole developments and the phenomenon of decreolizing - the approximation of the creole towards the lexifier by using the example of the Hawaiian Creole that I will also portray out of a socio-historical point of view. That creole is officially still called 'Hawai'i Pidgin' by its speakers, but I will avoid using that term in my paper.
Therefore, the term Hawai'i Creole English, short HCE, is more appropriate. Furthermore, I will deal with HCE's phonology, especially with its difference to Standard English, in detail - due to the question whether HCE is decreolizing or not. As Norval S. H. Smith states, creole phonology is a "neglected field" and "younger languages" have the tendency to be not as much irregular as "elder language" tend to be.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Gantner
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9783656978664
• ISBN: 978-3-656-97866-4
• No. of pages: 24
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 51 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V300313; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V300313
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies