Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (Oxford Studies in Language Contact) - Hardcover

Romaine, Suzanne

 
9780198239666: Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198239661 ISBN 13: 9780198239666
Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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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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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198239661
ISBN 13 
9780198239666
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
416