Language Contact in a Plantation Environment
A Sociolinguistic History of Fiji
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Part of Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
- Author: Jeff Siegel
- Date Published: April 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521106160
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Jeff Siegel's fascinating book provides a sociolinguistic history of language contact in Fiji where, from the 1860s until 1920, some 90,000 labourers from other Pacific islands and from India worked on the European-owned plantations. It focuses on the pidgins and other language varieties developed to meet the needs of peoples from different linguistic backgrounds and different cultures, and it brings a new standard of coverage and comprehensiveness to the notion of the 'life cycle' of pidginization and koineization. Importantly, it also includes data on the linguistic situation that is the legacy of the plantation era. The study is therefore a valuable contribution to our knowledge of an area that has been relatively neglected in sociolinguistics. At the same time, it is a far-sighted and lucid contribution to the continuing and controversial debates about the origins and structure of pidgin languages and about other sociolingustic phenomena that result from language contact.
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- Date Published: April 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521106160
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Background:
1. The plantation scenario
2. Language contact in Fiji before the plantation era
Part II. Languages from the Pacific:
3. Labourers from the Pacific
4. The plantation language: English or Fijian?
5. Plantation Pidgin Fijian
Part III. Languages from India:
6. Indian Labourers
7. Plantation languages of the Indian labourers
8. Plantation Pidgin Hindustani
Part IV. The linguistic legacies of the plantations:
9. The development of Fiji Hindustani
10. Decendants of Pacific Islands laborers
11. Pidgin languages in Fiji today
12. Conclusions.
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