Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a rich socio-historical context, this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into three sections, its analysis covers:
Space and place - areal perspective on pidgin and creole languages
Usage, function and power - sociolinguistic and artistic perspectives on pidgins and creoles, creoles as sociocultural phenomena
Framing of the study of pidgin and creole languages - history of the field, interdisciplinary connections
Demonstrating how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are, how rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Not in Retrospective: The Future of Pidgin and Creole Research - Umberto Ansaldo & Miriam Meyerhoff
Part I: Space and Place
Sub-Saharan Africa - Ana Deumert
The Arab World - Stefano Manfredi
Indian Ocean Creoles - Guillaume Fon Sing & Daniel Véronique
South and Southeast Asia - Nala H. Lee
Australia and the South West Pacific - Felicity Meakins
The contact Varieties of Japan and the North-West Pacific - Kazuko Matsumoto & David Britain
North America and Hawai'i - Sarah Roberts
Caribbean, South and Central America - Bettina Migge
The Atlantic - Kofi Yakpo & Norval Smith
Pidgins and Creoles in Eurasia: The Consolation of Philology - Anthony P. Grant
Part II: Usage, Function and Power
Creole Arts and Music - Käthe Managan
The Rise of Pidgin Theatre in Hawai'i - Tammy Haili'ōpua Baker
Creoles in Literature: Talking Story with Lee A. Tonouchi, 'Da Pidgin Guerrilla' on Pidgin in the Local Literatures of Hawai'i - Micheline M. Soong & Lee A. Tonouchi
Identity Politics - Nicholas Faraclas
Creoles, Education and Policy - Denise Angelo
Identity and Flexible Languages: Youth and Urban Varieties - Ellen Hurst-Harosh
Pidgins and Creoles: New Domains, New Technologies - Theresa Heyd
Im/Mobilities - Lisa Lim
Variation in Pidgin and Creole Languages - Miriam Meyerhoff
Part III: Framing
On the History of Pidgin and Creole Studies - Rachel Selbach
The Typology of Pidgin and Creole Languages - Viveka Velupillai
Language Contact and Human Dispersal - Roger Blench
Diachronic Studies of Pidgins and Creoles - Magnus Huber
Pidgins and Creoles and the Language Faculty - Marlyse Baptista, Danielle Burgess & Joy P.G. Peltier
Child Acquisition of Pidgins and Creoles - Michele M. Kennedy
Multilingualism and the Structure of Code-Mixing - Eeva Sippola
Post-Structuralist Approaches to Language Contact - Kara Fleming
Pidgin and Creole Ecology and Evolution - Umberto Ansaldo & Pui Yiu Szeto
Index
