Tok Pisin texts : from the beginning to the present /
Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their extensi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins,
©2003.
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Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. Text series ;
v. 9. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tok Pisin Texts
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Table of contents
- Sociohistorical and grammatical aspects of Tok Pisin
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Some brief remarks on the texts
- Abbreviations
- I. From early contacts and Gut Taim Bilong Siaman (the Good Old Days of the German Administration)
- II. Indigenous voices 1920-1945
- III. The use of Tok Pisin by missions and government
- IV. Indigenous voices 1950-1970
- V. Traditional indigenous voices 1970 to the present
- VI. Translations of foreign voices
- VII. Urban Tok Pisin and the in.uence of English.
- VIII. New written genres
- IX. Creolized varieties of Tok Pisin
- Bibliography
- The series VARIETIES OF ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD.