ENGLISH

Pidgins and Creoles

By Professor Loreto Todd

Book information

Year
1990
ISBN
9780415053112, 0415053110, 0203390474, 0203388151, 9780203388150, 020338119X, 9780203381199, 9780203390474
LCC
PM7802 .T63 1990
Open Library ID
OL1601993M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1007 kB (1030806 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
128\86
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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Description

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have been advanced to account for their existence. The author considers the potential of pidgins and creoles as literary media and as vehicles for education. She looks at the sociological and psychological implications of using pidgins and creoles in the classroom and examines the position of American `Black English' and `London Jamaican' in the pidgin/creole continuum.

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