Linguistic atlas of French Polynesia = Atlas linguistique de la Polynésie française / Jean-Michel Charpentier, Alexandre François.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charpentier, Jean-Michel, author.

François, Alexandre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic geography--Maps.

Linguistic geography.

French language--Maps.

French language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

[Hawthorne, New York] : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

J.-M. Charpentier (†), CNRS-LACITO & Université de la Polynésie Française, Papeete; A. François, CNRS-LACITO & ANU, Canberra.

Summary:

The vast territory of French Polynesia is home to seven distinct languages – Tahitian, Austral, Rapa, Mangarevan, North Marquesan, South Marquesan, and Pa’umotu – which in turn show internal variation. The fruit of ten years of joint work by two linguists of French CNRS, Jean-Michel Charpentier and Alexandre François, the Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia pays tribute to the rich linguistic landscape of the country by documenting thoroughly twenty different communalects, in the form of 2250 maps. Organised by topics (body, life, individual and society, culture and technology, flora and fauna), these lexical maps are supplemented by explanatory notes and indexes in French, English, Tahitian. Text chapters in French and English present the social profile and the historical dynamics of the territory’s languages, which are all endangered to various extents. Published in open access, this multilingual and comparative atlas provides an essential reference to scholars and teachers alike, as well as to a broader audience keen to explore and preserve the linguistic heritage of the Pacific region. Tahitian translation is available as supplementary material on this page.

Contents:

Complete eBook

Front matter

Sommaire / Table of Contents

Hommage à Jean-Michel Charpentier

Remerciements

Acknowledgments

Section I. L'Atlas Linguistique de la Polynésie française

Section II. Histoire sociolinguistique de la Polynésie française

Section III. Le plurilinguisme en Polynésie française: Histoire et avenir

Section IV. The Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia

Section V. Sociolinguistic history of French Polynesia

Section VI. Multilingualism in French Polynesia: Past and future

Section VII. Taxonomie sémantique

Section VIII. Semantic taxonomy

Section IX. Index des cartes / Map index

Section X. Les cartes / The maps

Les cartes sections 1-4 / The maps sections 1-4

Les cartes section 5 / The maps section 5

Les cartes section 6 / The maps section 6

Les cartes section 7 / The maps section 7

Les cartes sections 8-10 / The maps sections 8-10

Section XI. Index français / French finderlist

Section XII. Index anglais / English finderlist

Section XIII. Index tahitien / Tahitian finderlist

Section XIV. Bibliographie / References

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 4, 2015).

ISBN:

3-11-037691-1

OCLC:

1049636729