Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea - Couverture rigide

Romaine, Suzanne

 
9780198239666: Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198239661 ISBN 13 : 9780198239666
Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1992

Synopsis

By an internationally renowned sociolinguist

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
Clarendon Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198239661
ISBN 13 
9780198239666
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
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