Jeff Siegel's fascinating book provides a sociolinguistic history
of language contact in Fiji where, from the 1860s until 1920, some
90,000 labourers from other Pacific islands and from India worked
on the European-owned plantations. It focuses on the pidgins and
other language varieties developed to meet the needs of peoples
from different linguistic backgrounds and different cultures, and
it brings a new standard of coverage and comprehensiveness to the
notion of the 'life cycle' of pidginization and koineization.
Importantly, it also includes data on the linguistic situation that
is the legacy of the plantation era. The study is therefore a
valuable contribution to our knowledge of an area that has been
relatively neglected in sociolinguistics. At the same time, it is a
far-sighted and lucid contribution to the continuing and
controversial debates about the origins and structure of pidgin
languages and about other sociolingustic phenomena that result from
language contact.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language |
| Release date: |
April 2009 |
| First published: |
November 2008 |
| Authors: |
Jeff Siegel
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
324 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-10616-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
Sociolinguistics
|
| LSN: |
0-521-10616-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780521106160 |
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