Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of the West Indies Mona, Jamaica, April 1968

A collection of essays on the pidginization and creolization of language, taken from a conference at The University of the West Indies in April 1968.

Dell Hymes (Author)

9780521098885, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 December 1974

540 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.8 kg

This collection of essays on the pidginization and creolization of language is taken from a conference held at The University of the West Indies in April 1968. Its editor, Dell Hymes, was an incredibly influential sociolinguist and anthropologist in his lifetime, president of the Linguistic Society of America (1982), the American Anthropological Association (1983) and the American Folklore Society. He was a pioneer of the sociolinguist movement, striving to find ways to connect language and speech to human relations and anthropological study. Within this collection of essays, the reader will find varied studies of pidgin and creole languages by academics considered leaders in their field, particularly at this time. The topics of these essays range from those exploring the employment of pidgin languages in specific territories, such as Vietnam, the West Indies and the US, to those essays looking at the formation and hybridization of pidgin and creole languages generally.

Part I. Preface and Introduction: Preface Dell Hymes
Introduction: the study of pidgin and creole languages David Decamp
Part II. A Pidgin (and Two Creoles): Introduction
1. Tây B?i: notes on the pidgin French spoken in Vietnam John E. Reinecke
2. The Katanga (Lubumbashi) Swahili creole Edgar Polomé
3. The language situation in Haiti Albert Valdman
Part III. General Conceptions of Process: Introduction
4. Linguistic hybridization and the 'special case' of pidgins and creoles Keith Whinnom
5. Salient and substantive pidginization William J. Samarin
6. Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk, and pidgins Charles A. Ferguson
7. Convergence and creolization: a case from the Indo-Aryan/Dravidian border John J. Gumperz and Robert Wilson
8. Acculturation and the cultural matrix of creolization Mervyn C. Alleyne
9. Hypotheses as to the origin and modification of pidgins Martin Joos
10. A note on reduction and expansion in grammar Jan Voorhoeve
11. Language contact and the problem of convergent generative systems: Chinook jargon Michael Silverstein
12. The question of creolization in Puerto Rican Spanish David Lawton
Part IV. Problems of Historical Reconstruction: Introduction
13. Tracing the pidgin element in Jamaican creole (with notes on the nature of pidgin vocabularies) Frederick G. Cassidy
14. Lexical origins and semantic structure in Philippine creole Spanish Charles O. Frake
15. The strange case of Mbugu (Tanzania) Morris Goodman
16. Detecting prior creolization: an analysis of the historical origins of Marathi Franklin C. Southworth
17. A report on Chinook jargon Terrence S. Kaufman
18. Problems in the study of Hawaiian English Stanley Tsuzaki
19. Kongo words in Saramaxx Tongo Jan Daeleman
20. Tone and intonation in Sierra Leone Krio Jack Berry
21. A provisional comparison of the English-derived Atlantic creoles Ian F. Hancock
22. Grammatical and lexical affinities of creoles Douglas Taylor
Part V. Variation and Use: A Range of English-Linked Cases: Introduction
23. Varieties of creole in Suriname: church creole and pagan cult languages Jan Voorhoeve
24. Prestige in choice of language and linguistic form Christian Eersel
25. The art of reading creole poetry Jan Voorhoeve
26. Coexistent systems in language variation: the case of Hawaiian English Stanley Tsuzaki
27. Jamaican creole: can dialect boundaries be defined? Beryl L. Bailey
28. Toward a generative analysis of a post-creole speech continuum David Decamp
28. Education and creole English in the West Indies: some sociolinguistic factors Dennis R. Craig
29. The creolist and the study of Negro non-standard dialects in the continental United States J. L. Dillard
30. Cultural and linguistic ambiguity: some observations on the role of English-based creole in and Antiguan village Karl Reisman
31. The English language in Hawaii Elizabeth Carr
32. A report on neo-Melanesian Edward Wolfers
Part VI. Disciplinary Perspectives: Introduction
33. Some social forces and some social functions of pidgin and creole languages Allen D. Grimshaw
34. The notion of 'system' in creole languages William Labov
35. Language history and creole studies Henry M. Hoenigswald
36. The socio-historical background to pidginization and creolization Sidney W. Mintz
Part VII. Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]