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Author : Alan Strode Campbell Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pitcairnese Language written by Alan Strode Campbell Ross and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 3068812593
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Pitcairn written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Pitcairn is a book that provides an overview of the history, culture, and geography of Pitcairn Island. The book begins by describing how the island was discovered by Europeans in 1767 and subsequently settled by a group of British mutineers and Tahitian women in 1790. It then goes on to detail how the Pitcairn Islanders built a society on the island, despite facing significant challenges such as shortages of food and water, disease, and isolation. The book also covers the island's natural environment, wildlife, and attractions, such as its tropical climate and pristine beaches. The second paragraph of the book offers insight into the culture and way of life on Pitcairn Island. The book describes how the Pitcairn Islanders have developed a unique culture, blending elements of British and Polynesian cultures, and have also maintained a strong sense of community, despite their small population of approximately 50 people. The book also details the economy of the island, which is primarily focused on fishing and handicrafts, and explains how the Pitcairn Islanders have managed to preserve their traditional way of life while also integrating modern technologies and practices. Overall, Introduction to Pitcairn is a fascinating introduction to a remote and little-known island that has managed to develop a distinctive culture and way of life despite its many challenges.
Author : Tillman W. Nechtman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108640370
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Pretender of Pitcairn Island written by Tillman W. Nechtman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has, until now, been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh, and the mutineers' unlikely settlement of Pitcairn. Here, Hill is shown instead as someone alert to the full scope and power of the British Empire, to the geopolitics of international imperial competition, to the ins and outs of naval command, the vicissitudes of court politics, and, as such, to Pitcairn's symbolic power for the British Empire more broadly.
Author : Mark Sebba
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349255874
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Contact Languages written by Mark Sebba and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles aims to introduce the reader to the exciting and important field of pidgin and creole studies. The book deals with the linguistic, historical and social aspects of the development of pidgin and creole languages. Detailed case studies of individual pidgins and creoles are based around texts drawn from a range of different types and contexts (mainly contemporary), with discussion and grammatical notes. Chapters are interspersed with exercises to consolidate and develop the reader's understanding.
Author : Rosemarie Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111633829
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Who Climbs the Grammar-Tree written by Rosemarie Tracy and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Working Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel L. Everett
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307473805
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Language written by Daniel L. Everett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most important—and provocative—anthropological fieldwork ever undertaken.” —Tom Wolfe For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. In this bold and provocative study, linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms—that is, different grammar—reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety. Combining anthropology, primatology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and his own pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirahã, and using insights from many different languages and cultures, Everett presents an unprecedented elucidation of this society-defined nature of language. In doing so, he also gives us a new understanding of how we think and who we are.
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110819724
Total Pages : 1903 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas written by Stephen A. Wurm and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 1903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195347234
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Defining Creole written by John H. McWhorter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then adults learn a language under untutored conditions, they abbreviate its structure, focusing upon features vital to communication and shaving away most of the features useless to communication that bedevil those acquiring the language non-natively. When they utilize their rendition of the language consistently enough to create a brand-new one, this new creation naturally evinces evidence of its youth: specifically, a much lower degree of the random accretions typical in older languages, which only develop over vast periods of time. The articles constitute a case for this thesis based on both broad, cross-creole ranges of data and focused expositions referring to single creole languages. The book presents a general case for a theory of language contact and creolization in which not only transfer from source languages but also structural reduction plays a central role, based on facts whose marginality of address in creole studies has arisen from issues sociopolitical as well as scientific. For several decades the very definition of the term creole has been elusive even among creole specialists. This book attempts to forge a path beyond the inter- and intra-disciplinary misunderstandings and stalemates that have resulted from this, and to demonstrate the place that creoles might occupy in other linguistic subfields, including typology, language contact, and syntactic theory.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pacific Linguistics. Series A. written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501437
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Pitkern-Norf’k written by Peter Mühlhäusler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century. Most of their descendants subsequently relocated to Norfolk Island. It is an in-depth study of the complex linguistic, ecological and sociohistorical forces that have been involved in the formation and subsequent development of this unique endangered language on both islands."--Publisher's description
Author : Sandra Harding
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349574
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader written by Sandra Harding and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of foundational and contemporary essays in postcolonial science studies./div
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351756575
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book International English written by Peter Trudgill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating journey through the varieties of English spoken around the world. Comparisons across the varieties provide a comprehensive guide to differences in phonetics, phonology, grammar and vocabulary, making this a useful resource for teachers of English as a foreign language and linguistics students alike. This sixth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the following: new sections on the Death of RP, Estuary English, Multicultural London English, the Dublin accent and Fijian English; updated material on RP phonology, New Zealand English phonology, Australian English lexis, North American English lexis and the Northern Cities Chain Shift; revised and updated references and bibliography. This textbook comes with free-to-download MP3 files at www.routledge.com/9781138233690, which demonstrate the different varieties featured in the book – ideal for use in class, at home or on the move. International English remains a key and indispensable resource for teachers and students, and is essential reading for anyone studying varieties of English in a global context.
Author : Arthur K. Spears
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027275858
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles written by Arthur K. Spears and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10-06 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language contact phenomena (Section Two); a reinterpretation of the sources and genesis of grammatical aspects of Saramaccan and Atlantic creoles in general (Section Three); a reconsideration of the status of languages defying received definitions of pidgins and creoles (Section Four); and analyses of aspects of grammar that shed light on the issue of what a possible creole grammar is (Section Five).
Author : Sarah Grey Thomason
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520912799
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics written by Sarah Grey Thomason and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.
Author : Lucas Lex DeJong
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669830942
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Unmapped Darkness written by Lucas Lex DeJong and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Vatican Secret Archives has declassified and disclosed the bulk of its once-private catalogue. Buried within was a journal. More than a century old, its entries had been written in a wide variety of languages, and it had been filed away as an oddity with little historical value. Meticulously studied and translated by Dr Anthony Waterman, a scholar of Western Esotericism, it told of a journey which crossed continents in pursuit of an obsession. Presented here is the personal account of the explorer Laurent Leroux - The Red Raider - and his lifelong search for the fabled Starless Citadel: Nástur
Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868406800
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Lingo written by Graham Seal and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively linguistic analysis of our distinctive forms of speech drawn from a range of everyday experiences, including work, relaxation, gambling, drinking, family life, sport, crime, war, politics and sexual relations.
