Early Forms of Aboriginal English in South Australia, 1840s-1920s Tapa blanda - 2003

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. 2003. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 102 p. Includes: maps, bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 538 . In recent years pidgin languages have begun to lose the tag that has dogged them in the past of being bastard or corrupt languages. Arising mainly as reduced languages for intercultural communication in contexts ranging from trade to outright colonisation, they have often been viewed by their users as inferior to the full or pure languages of their respective cultures. As one writer put it in 1939: In whatever country we find Pidgin English it is still an inferior growth, or development from originally pure words or sentences of some language or other. These days pidgins are increasingly recognised for the insights they provide into the dynamic processes of intercultural communication and the nature of human communication in general. They are particularly useful for tracing the ways languages change and develop in response to changing… Leer más