[lg policy] book notice: Pidgins and Creoles in Asia

[Harold Schiffman]

Pidgins and Creoles in Asia
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 38
Published: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.38

Editor: Umberto Ansaldo

Abstract:

This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the
better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the
South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and
after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into
language contact in historical settings and with empirical features
substantially different from those that have shaped the theory of the
field. Two pidgin varieties of the Far East are described in detail,
namely Chinese-Pidgin Russian and China Coast Pidgin. The former
offers a unique opportunity to observe the typological dynamics of
contact between Slavic, Tungusic and Sinitic, while the latter
presents one of the better-documented studies of any pidgin so far.
The third contribution is an in-depth analysis of the Portuguese India
slave trade in relation to contact phenomena. The remaining two
chapters look at Southeast Asia and discuss Malayo-Portuguese Creoles
and the ubiquitous Malay-Sinitic lingua franca respectively. From a
linguistic perspective the diversity of language families, the
historical time depth, the complex patterns of population movements,
and the wealth of contact phenomena that define Asia are so many and
at times still so little understood that no single volume could ever
pretend to shed sufficient light on all these aspects of the region.
Despite providing what can be seen as a sample platter of the field of
contact linguistics in this part of the world, the in-depth analysis
of exotic socio-historical settings, the typologically diverse and
rich data sets, and the notions of pidgins and Creoles as applied here
will nonetheless stretch the limits and limitations of current
theories in the field, and are a must read for anyone interested in
arriving at solid theoretical generalizations.

Published earlier as 'Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics' 25:1, 2010.

Linguistic Field(s): Creole Studies
                            Language Contact
                            Sociolinguistics
                            Typology
Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic

Written In: English (eng)

See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=61597

http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3345.html

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