Publications

Publication details [#12467]

Romaine, Suzanne. 1997. Pidgin English Advertising. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 353–360.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

advertising | multilingualism | national language | pidgin | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Reprint of

Michaels, Leonard and Christopher Ricks, eds. 1980. The state of the language. University of California Press.

Annotation

On the codification and expansion of Tok Pisin, with special reference to its use as an advertising medium.