Emanuel J. Drechsel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emanuel J. Drechsel plays a role.
2019 In memory of Derek Bickerton (1926–2018) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:2, pp. 185–194 | Obituary
2014 Ethnohistory of speaking: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin in a trilogy
of historical-sociolinguistic attestations Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, Buchstaller, Isabelle, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily (eds.), pp. 7–40 | Article
Because most non-European pidgins-creoles have not survived into modern times, their study requires alternative, complementary historical analyses under the heading of the ethnohistory of speaking: philology (or the systematic reconstitution of early attestations by triangulation with… read more
2007 Sociolinguistic-ethnohistorical observations on Maritime Polynesian Pidgin in Herman Melville’s two major semi-autobiographical novels of the Pacific Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:2, pp. 231–262 | Article
Notwithstanding limited micro-sociolinguistic information on who spoke what, how, when, where, and in what other relevant circumstances, Melville’s two major semi-autobiographical novels of the Pacific, Typee and Omoo, invite an analysis in terms of an ethnohistory of speaking, i.e. the… read more
1999 Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Evidence for a Maritime Polynesian Jargon or Pidgin Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 71–96 | Article