The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
by Silvia Kouwenberg (Editor), John Victor Singler (Editor)
ISBN-10: 0631229027
ISBN-13: 9780631229025
$71.95
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Published on
Dec 3, 2008
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.10x1.65x10.00 Inches
Weight
2.74 Pounds
About the Book
Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.
- A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies
- Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team
- Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society
- Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language