24.3440, Books: Contact Languages: Ansaldo

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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:24:12
From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: Contact Languages: Ansaldo

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Title: Contact Languages 
Subtitle: Ecology and Evolution in Asia 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/contact-languages-ecology-and-evolution-asia 

Author: Umberto Ansaldo

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521682534 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521682534 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 34.99

Abstract:

Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well as the Asian Portuguese vernacular of Macau, and China Coast Pidgin, this 2009 book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the fascinating phenomenon of the creation of new, or restructured, grammars. It emphasizes the importance and interplay of historical documentation, socio-cultural observation and linguistic analysis in the study of contact languages, offering an evolutionary framework for the study of contact language formation - including pidgins and Creoles - in which historical, socio-cultural and typological observations come together. 

"...the book is an extremely rich source of new information regarding the linguistic, social, historical cultural, and methodological aspects of CLF in Monsoon Asia."  -Yosuke Sato, National University 

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction to contact language formation; 2.
Research questions; 3. The role of ecology in Asian contexts; 4. Theory of
language and contact language formation; 5. Contact language formation beyond
exceptional evolution; 6. Outlook; Part II. The Ecology of Monsoon Asia: 7.
Monsoon Asia; 8. Sino-Javanese trade; 9. The city-ports; 10. Manpower in
Southeast Asia; 11. The Western impact; Part III. Linguistic Ecologies of
Southeast Asia: 12. Southeast Asia and the role of Malay; 13. Malay contact
varieties; 14. Introducing contexts of formation; 15. The role of Portuguese
in Southeast Asia and Southern China; 16. Summary; Part IV. Methodological
Issues in the Study of Contact Languages: 17. The ideology of theory; 18.
Multilingualism and transmission; 19. Conclusions; Part V. Contact Language
Formation in Evolutionary Theory: 20. Competence, performance and
socialization; 21. Language evolution and contact languages; 22. Functionalist
assets for contact linguistics; 23. Conclusions; Part VI. Congruence and
Frequency in Sri Lanka Malay: 24. The SLM community; 25. Selection and
replication in SLM; 26. Freeing SLM from the chains of exceptionalism; 27.
Final remarks; Part VII. Identity Alignment in Malay and Asian-Portuguese
Diaspora: 28. The ecology of identity alignment; 29. Multiple alignments in
contact settings; 30. Identity alignment and admixture; 31. Conclusions; Part
VIII. Pidgin Ecologies of the China Coast: 32. Sociohistorical background of
Europe-China relations; 33. The ecology of Macau and the Pearl River Delta;
34. Grammatical features of China Coast Pidgin; 35. The missing Makista link?;
36. Discussion; Part IX. Implications, Conclusions and New Horizons: 37.
Theoretical and methodological implications; 38. Conclusions and new horizons;
References; Index; Author index.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Creole Malay, Sri Lankan (sci)
                     Macanese (mzs)
                     Malay, Baba (mbf)
                     Malay, Cocos Islands (coa)
                     Pidgin English, Chinese (cpi)

Written In: English  (eng)

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