...Roy Andrew Miller Japanese Pidgin English in Hawaii: A Bilingual Description. . By Susumu Nagara . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1972 . 322 pp. Tables, References, Appendices. $6.50 (paperback). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 1...

... by the same speaker in different parts of this book that the reader ends up questioning the reliability of everything in these pages. If these and the many other internal inconsistencies that appear in this study are really free variants within the pidgin, they should have been commented upon in detail (none...

.... Various chapters focus on social dialectology, bi- and multi-lingualism, pidginization and creolization (with a section on South Asian English), convergence ("linguistic area") phenomena, and what the authors call "ethnographic semantics" (lexical subsystems so far, essentially work on kinship terminology...

.... There is an effort to make the discussion intelligible to linguists and nonlinguists, South Asia specialists and nonspecialists, and to bring out regional differences. All told, the work of more than 250 scholars is discussed. Various chapters focus on social dialectology, bi- and multi-lingualism, pidginization...

... or at least politically dominant) will secure unfair advantage in government, education, or commerce. The essays include examples of local, nonethnic lingua franca such as Bahasa Indonesia for Indonesia or various forms of pidgin English in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu that serve this capacity. Elsewhere...

... of local, nonethnic lingua franca such as Bahasa Indonesia for Indonesia or various forms of pidgin English in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu that serve this capacity. Elsewhere, languages of the former colonial powers serve this function English in India and both French and English (in addition to pidgin...

..., Malay, Mongol, Pashtu, Pidgin English, Korean, Hungarian, Icelandic, Iranian, Japanese, Portuguese, Panjabi, Russian, Thai and Turkish studies. GUNTHER, JOHN. Inside Asia: school edition. Edited by G. E. McReynolds. New York: Harpers, 1942. The material has been rearranged, and that relating to Western...

...) and topical conferences (e.g., on pidgins and Creoles) are increasingly popular, and linguists specializing in these languages and topics prefer to give their papers at such meetings. The proceedings do include a number of important and lively theoretical papers, starting with a blast by Raimo Anttila...

... and linguistic structures, including syntax, grammar, morphology, end even systems of writing (see Yamuna Kachru's “Hindi–Urdu–Hindustani”; Karumuri V. Subbarao's “Typological Characteristics of South Asian Languages”; Ian Smith's “Pidgins, Creoles, and Bazaar Hindi”; Peter T. Daniels's “Writing Systems of Major...

... be raised. Firstly, given that the study traverses between Chinese, European, and Southeast Asian history, greater consistency of keywords from each of these subfields' conventions would be critical to conferring upon the study an overall consistency. As an example, the term “hoppo,” the pidginized term...

..., especially Hollywood) and the local conditions of reception and translation (pp. 18–19). One important emblem of such local translation is the emergence of Yangjingbang , or pidgin English, a linguistic vernacular developed in Shanghai that also finds expression in vernacular architecture and other modes...

... artists studying no or kyogen to the multiple stages of linguistic acquisition and practice that emerge along the "pidgin-creole" continuum. No and Kyogen in the Contemporary World is valuable not only for the window it opens into the workshop of contemporary experiments with no and kyogen, but even more...

...” Malay emerged among the Chinese (and other resident alien groups), in counterdistinction with the “High” Malay of the colonial and Malay polities. This pidgin language was rendered further diverse by frequent “lexical borrowing and code-mixing involving Hokkien, Dutch, Javanese, and/or Sundanese...

... of the syntactic structure of pidgin languages by comparison compared to those of other languages (p. 17) appear to be mere assertions without adequate evidence to support them. Some concepts and phrases are used without elaboration, and thus remain vague for instance, "civilizational ...

... into the building of a commercial pidgin in the international Asian trade of the day. The editor of Bertuccioli's essays, Antonio Forte, has felt bound to come to the defense of Carletti and his book. Bertuccioli has dispassionately presented Carletti as an amoral product of his time, Eurocentric, and working...

... internal limitations" (p. 43) of much SLA theory, questioning the universality of such influential concepts as interlanguage, transfer, fossilization, pidginization, and creolization. Similarly, A. L. Khanna uses evidence from the Indian context to question theories which identify particular motivational...

... collections in the United States and in the Philippines for works pertaining to the native languages of the Philippines (including Creoles and pidgins found there). The entries range in date from the 16th century to approximately 1966-1969 although some publication dates as late as 1971 are also included...

... Creoles and pidgins found there). The entries range in date from the 16th century to approximately 1966-1969 although some publication dates as late as 1971 are also included. An additional section on manuscripts covers unpublished works of various kinds. Covered are linguistic works on all Philippine...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 634 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES amounts to no literature at all . . . you still cannot leave aside the masses, the proletarian masses" (p. 142). But the "popular" language itself came under attack. It followed the Western type of sentence patterns (a kind of pidgin...

... are inadequate and often abbreviated in a and talk about the Yangtse River" (p. 29). He way which provides needless difficulties for stu- also notes that Cunningham wrote pidgin Eng- dents wanting to trace the source. lish letters to his compradores and that his in- Despite these criticisms, Dr. Ch'en's book...