Language, Education, and Development - Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea

This book examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin, as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers.

Summary

Papua New Guinea's struggle for development is intimately bound up with the history of Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin which is the product of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Pacific. The language has since become the most important lingua franca in the region, being spoken by more than a million people in a highly multilingual society. Suzanne Romaine examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers. These linguistic processes, which are by no means complete, have to be understood in the socio-historical context of colonial expansion and strategies for socio-economic development in the post-colonial era.

Foreword

By an internationally renowned sociolinguist

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Romaine, Romaine Suzanne
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.1992
• EAN: 9780198239666
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823966-6
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 790 g
• Illustrations: line figures, tables
• Series: Oxford Studies in Language Contact; Oxford Studies in Language Con; Oxford Studies in Language Contact
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Dialect, slang & jargon, Dialect, slang and jargon, Papua New Guinea, Pidgins and Creoles, Pidgins & Creoles