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What is Creole

Chapter 8
Indigenous Language Acquisition, Maintenance, and Loss and Current Language Policies
The common language occurred in some place or community, such as a plantation or a factory, and later, it became someone’s native tongue in descendent generation. It is creole and the creole language in South Pacific, and the language became the lingua franca in the area, like Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, and Bislama in Vanuatu.
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Persons and Address Terms in Melanesia: A Contrastive Study
Masahiko Nose (Shiga University, Japan)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2959-1.ch008
Abstract
This chapter deals with vocative and address terms of the several Melanesian languages and tries to investigate the grammatical and sociolinguistic characteristics of them. This study is a contrastive study of the six languages which are spoken in Papua New Guinea (Amele, Bel, and Tok Pisin) and Vanuatu (South Efate, Nguna, and Bislama). This study tries to clarify the characteristics of their lexicon (mainly kinship and address terms) and usages of personal pronouns and their verb inflections. Generally, the sample languages are rich in usages of these terms (kinship, personal pronouns, vocatives) whereas creole languages have limited usages and borrowed from English lexicon. Finally, this study claims that there are several rules of defining social relations and their grammatical forms.
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Chapter 11
Teachers' Perspectives on the Use of Home Language in the Acquisition of Standard English
In Caribbean context, it is a native language developed during slavery as a means of communication between slaves.
Published in Chapter: Teachers' Perspectives on the Use of Home Language in the Acquisition of Standard English; From: Transformative Pedagogical Perspectives on Home Language Use in Classrooms
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Advancing the Case for Indigenous Education in Multidisciplinary Contexts: An Innovative Initiative
The language spoken by native speakers and which is influenced by that of the colonisers.
Published in Chapter: Advancing the Case for Indigenous Education in Multidisciplinary Contexts: An Innovative Initiative; From: Redesigning Teaching, Leadership, and Indigenous Education in the 21st Century
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