Language, Education, and Development : Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Language Contact
ISBN-10
0198239661
ISBN-13
9780198239666
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 18th, 1992
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
790 grams
Dimensions
24.20 x 16.20 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Dialect, slang & jargon
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This book examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin, as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers.
Papua New Guinea''s struggle for development is intimately bound up with the history of Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin which is the product of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Pacific. The language has since become the most important lingua franca in the region, being spoken by more than a million people in a highly multilingual society. Suzanne Romaine examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers. These linguistic processes, which are by no means complete, have to be understood in the socio-historical context of colonial expansion and strategies for socio-economic development in the post-colonial era.
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