Subjects: Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
Description
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Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well as the Asian Portuguese vernacular of Macau, and China Coast Pidgin, this book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the fascinating phenomenon of the creation of new, or restructured, grammars. It emphasizes the importance and interplay of historical documentation, socio-cultural observation and linguistic analysis in the study of contact languages, offering an evolutionary framework for the study of contact language formation - including pidgins and Creoles - in which historical, socio-cultural and typological observations come together.
Review
"… [this] book is an extremely rich source of new information regarding the lingusitic, social, historical, cultural, and methodological aspects of CLF in Monsoon Asia."
Yosuke Sato, National University of Singapore
"Ansaldo offers a detailed and highly informative historical account of trade and power relations in the region … [this book is] very suitable for beginners as well as specialists, and I would certainly recommend it as a secondary textbook for students of linguistics and related areas."
Languages in Contrast
Book Description
This book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the creation of new, or restructured, grammars.
About the Author
Umberto Ansaldo is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. He was formerly a Senior Researcher and Lecturer with the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication at the University of Amsterdam. He has also worked in Sweden and Singapore and conducted fieldwork in China, the Cocos and Christmas Islands and Sri Lanka. He is the co-editor of the Creole Language Library Series and has co-edited various journals and books including Deconstructing Creole (2007).
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Contents
Frontmatter pp i-vi
Contents pp vii-viii
List of maps pp ix-ix
List of tables and figures pp x-x
Series editor's foreword pp xi-xii
Acknowledgements pp xiii-xv
List of abbreviations pp xvi-xviii
1 - Introduction pp 1-17
2 - The ecology of Monsoon Asia pp 18-51
3 - Linguistic ecologies of Southeast Asia pp 52-80
4 - Methodological issues in the study of contact languages pp 81-98
5 - Contact language formation in evolutionary theory pp 99-121
6 - Congruence and frequency in Sri Lanka Malay pp 122-147
7 - Identity alignment in Malay and Asian-Portuguese Diaspora pp 148-183
8 - Pidgin ecologies of the China coast pp 184-212
9 - Implications, conclusions, and new horizons pp 213-228
References pp 229-252
Index
Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)
Illustrated Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0521863971, ISBN-10: 052186397X
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Online publication date: January 2010
- Print publication year: 2009
- Online ISBN: 9780511642203
Product Code:Zc9gEMm
Brand:Good for undergraduate and graduate researchers of language and Linguistics
Product Condition:New
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