Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Umberto Ansaldo is Professor in Linguistics and Head of the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, Australia. This Handbook was started at The University of Hong Kong and completed at The University of Sydney.Miriam Meyerhoff is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Oxford. She holds an adjunct position at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgements Not in Retrospective: The Future of Pidgin and Creole Research – Umberto Ansaldo & Miriam MeyerhoffPart I: Space and Place Sub-Saharan Africa – Ana Deumert The Arab World – Stefano Manfredi Indian Ocean Creoles – Guillaume Fon Sing & Daniel Véronique South and Southeast Asia – Nala H. Lee Australia and the South West Pacific – Felicity Meakins The contact Varieties of Japan and the North-West Pacific – Kazuko Matsumoto & David Britain North America and Hawai‘i – Sarah Roberts Caribbean, South and Central America – Bettina Migge The Atlantic – Kofi Yakpo & Norval Smith Pidgins and Creoles in Eurasia: The Consolation of Philology – Anthony P. GrantPart II: Usage, Function and Power Creole Arts and Music – Käthe Managan The Rise of Pidgin Theatre in Hawai‘i – Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker Creoles in Literature: Talking Story with Lee A. Tonouchi, ‘Da Pidgin Guerrilla’ on Pidgin in the Local Literatures of Hawai‘i – Micheline M. Soong & Lee A. Tonouchi Identity Politics – Nicholas Faraclas Creoles, Education and Policy – Denise Angelo Identity and Flexible Languages: Youth and Urban Varieties – Ellen Hurst-Harosh Pidgins and Creoles: New Domains, New Technologies – Theresa Heyd Im/Mobilities – Lisa Lim Variation in Pidgin and Creole Languages – Miriam MeyerhoffPart III: Framing On the History of Pidgin and Creole Studies – Rachel Selbach The Typology of Pidgin and Creole Languages – Viveka Velupillai Language Contact and Human Dispersal – Roger Blench Diachronic Studies of Pidgins and Creoles – Magnus Huber Pidgins and Creoles and the Language Faculty – Marlyse Baptista, Danielle Burgess & Joy P.G. Peltier Child Acquisition of Pidgins and Creoles – Michele M. Kennedy Multilingualism and the Structure of Code-Mixing – Eeva Sippola Post-Structuralist Approaches to Language Contact – Kara Fleming Pidgin and Creole Ecology and Evolution – Umberto Ansaldo & Pui Yiu Szeto Index