Publications

Publication details [#56390]

Paris, Hannah. 2012. Sociolinguistic effects of church languages in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 214 : 39–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ablative absolute construction | education | language policy | religious language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English | Languages, Papuan | Tok Pisin

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study discusses the early 1900s German Lutheran mission's language policy of promoting the Kâte and Yabem local languages for use in evangelistic communication in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, and their subsequent replacement in the 1950s with Tok Pisin and English for religious and educational purposes and its lasting socioliguistic effects.