Growing Up with Tok Pisin: Contact, Creolization, and Change in Papua New Guinea's National Language

Smith, Geoff P.

ISBN 10: 1903292069 / ISBN 13: 9781903292068

Published by Battlebridge Pubns, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Growing Up with Tok Pisin: Contact, Creolization, and Change in Papua New Guinea's National Language
• Publisher: Battlebridge Pubns
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903292069
• ISBN 13: 9781903292068
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Growing up with Tok Pisin is by far the most comprehensive account yet published of what has become Papua New Guinea's most important language and how it is changing as it is adopted by more and more people. This book is essential reading for everyone concerned with how Pidgins and Creoles develop, as well as for educators and language planners.

About the Author

Geoff P. Smith spent 22 years in Papua New Guinea. While there he made recordings of more than 500 young people for whom the language had become the primary means of communication in 14 different provinces of Papua New Guinea. His study is one of the best informed of any pidgin or Creole language. He has published more than 20 journal articles in linguistic journals. This is his first book.