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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mühlhäusler, Peter, Dutton, Thomas Edward, 1935-, Romaine, Suzanne, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, ©2003.
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.