Pidgins and Creoles

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Routledge, 2 wrz 2003 - 128
The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have been advanced to account for their existence. The author considers the potential of pidgins and creoles as literary media and as vehicles for education. She looks at the sociological and psychological implications of using pidgins and creoles in the classroom and examines the position of American `Black English' and `London Jamaican' in the pidgin/creole continuum.

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Language and name
7
pidgins
17
from pidgin to creole
31
Chapter 5 The scope of pidgins and creoles
43
Chapter 6 Conclusion
54
Appendix one
58
Appendix two
60
Appendix three
61
Appendix four
63
Bibliography
69
Index
75

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Professor Loreto Todd, Loreto Todd Loreto Todd is a specialist in Modern English and is the author The Language of Irish Literature, Words Apart: A Dictionary of Northern Ireland English, and Modern Englishes, Pidgins and Creoles.

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