The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages

The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a rich socio-historical context, this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into three sections, its analysis covers: - Space and place - areal perspective on pidgin and creole languages - Usage, function and power - sociolinguistic and artistic perspectives on pidgins and creoles, creoles as sociocultural phenomena - Framing of the study of pidgin and creole languages - history of the field, interdisciplinary connections Demonstrating how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are, how rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.

Umberto Ansaldo is Professor in Linguistics and Head of the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, Australia. This Handbook was started at The University of Hong Kong and completed at The University of Sydney. Miriam Meyerhoff is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Oxford. She holds an adjunct position at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Not in Retrospective: The Future of Pidgin and Creole Research - Umberto Ansaldo & Miriam Meyerhoff Part I: Space and Place - Sub-Saharan Africa - Ana Deumert - The Arab World - Stefano Manfredi - Indian Ocean Creoles - Guillaume Fon Sing & Daniel Véronique - South and Southeast Asia - Nala H. Lee - Australia and the South West Pacific - Felicity Meakins - The contact Varieties of Japan and the North-West Pacific - Kazuko Matsumoto & David Britain - North America and Hawai'i - Sarah Roberts - Caribbean, South and Central America - Bettina Migge - The Atlantic - Kofi Yakpo & Norval Smith - Pidgins and Creoles in Eurasia: The Consolation of Philology - Anthony P. Grant Part II: Usage, Function and Power - Creole Arts and Music - Käthe Managan - The Rise of Pidgin Theatre in Hawai'i - Tammy Haili'opua Baker - Creoles in Literature: Talking Story with Lee A. Tonouchi, 'Da Pidgin Guerrilla' on Pidgin in the Local Literatures of Hawai'i - Micheline M. Soong & Lee A. Tonouchi - Identity Politics - Nicholas Faraclas - Creoles, Education and Policy - Denise Angelo - Identity and Flexible Languages: Youth and Urban Varieties - Ellen Hurst-Harosh - Pidgins and Creoles: New Domains, New Technologies - Theresa Heyd - Im/Mobilities - Lisa Lim - Variation in Pidgin and Creole Languages - Miriam Meyerhoff Part III: Framing - On the History of Pidgin and Creole Studies - Rachel Selbach - The Typology of Pidgin and Creole Languages - Viveka Velupillai - Language Contact and Human Dispersal - Roger Blench - Diachronic Studies of Pidgins and Creoles - Magnus Huber - Pidgins and Creoles and the Language Faculty - Marlyse Baptista, Danielle Burgess & Joy P.G. Peltier - Child Acquisition of Pidgins and Creoles - Michele M. Kennedy - Multilingualism and the Structure of Code-Mixing - Eeva Sippola - Post-Structuralist Approaches to Language Contact - Kara Fleming - Pidgin and Creole Ecology and Evolution - Umberto Ansaldo & Pui Yiu Szeto Index