Creole Language in Creole Literatures

Special Issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:1 (2005)

Editor

Susanne Mühleisen

[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 20:1] 2005. 232 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.20.1

Table of Contents

Titular	i–ii
Contents	iii–iv
Introduction: Creole languages in creole literatures. Status and standardization Susanne Mühleisen	1–14
Praatjies and boerenbrieven: Popular literature in the history of Afrikaans Ana Deumert	15–51
Creole and Respec' in the development of Jamaican literary discourse Barbara Lalla	53–84
Basilects in Creole Literatures: Examples from Sranan, Capeverdian Crioulo and Antillean Kréyol George Lang	85–99
Orthographic practices in the standardization of pidgins and creoles: Pidgin in Hawai'i as anti-language and anti-standard Suzanne Romaine	101–140
Creolization outside Creolistics Jeff Siegel	141–166
The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages and the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, In Retrospect Glenn Gilbert	167–174
Myths and facts about the Kyakhta Trade Pidgin Dieter Stern	175–187
Review of Plag (2003): Phonology and morphology of creole languages Reviewed by Malcolm Awadajin Finney	189–194
Review of Kouwenberg (2003): Twice as meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and other contact languages Reviewed by George L. Huttar	194–198
Review of McWhorter (2000): Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles Reviewed by Brian D. Joseph	198–208
Review of Smith (2002): Growing up with Tok Pisin: Contact, creolization and change in Papua New Guinea’s national language Reviewed by Stephen Matthews	208–211
Review of Lefebvre (2004): Issues in the study of pidgin and creole languages Reviewed by John H. McWhorter	211–218
Review of Gilbert (2002): Pidgin and creole linguistics in the twenty-first century Reviewed by Arthur K. Spears	218–227

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General