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

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

Emanuel J. Drechsel is a senior faculty member of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa, 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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Emanuel J. Drechsel, Emanuel J. (University of Hawaii Drechsel, Drechsel Emanuel J.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107699618
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69961-8
• Pagine: 352
• Serie: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact; Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Dialect, slang and jargon, Oceanic and Polynesian languages