Publications
Publication details [#3438]
Fox, James A. 1977. Implications of the jargon/pidgin dichotomy for social and linguistic analysis of the Gastarbeiter pidgin German community. In Molony, Carol H., Helmut Zobl and Wilfried Stölting, eds. Deutsch im Kontakt mit anderen Sprachen/German in contact with other languages. Scriptor. pp. 40–46.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
F. distinguishes between pidgins and jargons, and argues that Gastarbeiter German is a classic pidgin. Incipient creolization can be observed. F. stresses the importance of Gastarbeiter Pidgin German to the theory of language adaptivity.