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

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.

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