Suzanne Romaine - Language, Education and Development

1992. Language, Education and Development. Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Preface
Chapter 1 Historical development of Tok Pisin
Preface
Chapter 2 Language, education and development - from pre-colonial days to post-colonial society
Chapter 3 Methods
Chapter 4 Lexical expansion, borrowing and change
Chapter 5 Phonological expansion in a developing pidgin/creole
Chapter 6 Morphological variation and change
Chapter 7 Syntactic change
Chapter 8 Tok Pisin i go we? (Where is Tok Pisin going?)
References
Index

Description

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 19th-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. This book 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.

Fieldwork in Lae 1986-1987

Fieldwork in rural Madang Province 1986-1987

Fieldwork in rural Morobe Province 1986-1987

Fieldwork rural Morobe Province 1986-1987

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