Contact languages : ecology and evolution in Asia / Umberto Ansaldo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ansaldo, Umberto, author.

Series:

Cambridge approaches to language contact.

Cambridge approaches to language contact

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pidgin languages--Southeast Asia.

Pidgin languages.

Creole dialects--Southeast Asia.

Creole dialects.

Languages in contact--Southeast Asia.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well as the Asian Portuguese vernacular of Macau, and China Coast Pidgin, this book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the fascinating phenomenon of the creation of new, or restructured, grammars. It emphasizes the importance and interplay of historical documentation, socio-cultural observation and linguistic analysis in the study of contact languages, offering an evolutionary framework for the study of contact language formation - including pidgins and Creoles - in which historical, socio-cultural and typological observations come together.

Contents:

1. Introduction. Introduction to contact language formation (CLF)

Research questions

The role of ecology in Asian contexts

Theory of language and CLF

CLF beyond exceptional evolution

2. The ecology of Monsoon Asia. Monsoon Asia

Sino-Javanese trade

The city-ports

Manpower in early Southeast Asia

The Western impact

3. Linguistic ecologies of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia and the role of Malay

Malay contact varieties

Introducing contexts of formation

The role of Portuguese in Southeast Asia and Southern China

Summary

4. Methodological issues in the study of contact languages. The ideology of theory

Multilingualism and transmission

Conclusions

5. Contact language formation in evolutionary theory. Competence, performance and socialization

Language evolution and contact languages

Functionalist assets for contact linguistics

6. Congruence and frequency in Sri Lanka Malay. The SLM community

Selection and replication in SLM

Freeing SLM from the chains of exceptionalism

Final remarks

7. Identity alignment in Malay and Asian-Portuguese Diaspora. The ecology of identity alignment

Multiple alignments in contact settings

Identity alignment and admixture

8. Pidgin ecologies of the China coast. Sociohistorical background of Europe-China relations

The ecology of Macau and the Pearl River Delta

Grammatical features of China Coast Pidgin

The missing Makista link?

Discussion

9. Implications, conclusions, and new horizons. Theoretical and methodological implications

Conclusions and new horizons.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-84758-0

1-107-21017-8

0-521-68253-3

0-511-64095-1

1-282-38652-2

9786612386527

0-511-64163-X

0-511-63919-8

0-511-63812-4

0-511-64027-7

OCLC:

609846161