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Peer reviewedSamarin, William J. – Language in Society, 1984
Discusses the role that Europeans played in the process that led to pidginized languages, in particular to the development of Pidgin Sango, the "national language" of the Central African Republic. Contends that the manner in which the Europeans communicated with Central Africans was constrained by culturally conditioned "knowledge." (SED)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Colonialism, Linguistic Borrowing, Pidgins
Peer reviewedLucas, Ceil; Valli, Clayton – Language in Society, 1991
Reports on one aspect of an ongoing study of language contact in the American deaf community. The ultimate goal of the study is a linguistic description of contact signing and a reexamination of claims that it is a pidgin. Patterns of language use are reviewed and the role of demographic information in judgments is examined. (29 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Demography, English
Peer reviewedBender, M. L.; And Others – Language in Society, 1972
Work supported in part by a Social Science Research Council research fellowship to R. L. Cooper. (VM)
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Research, Language Typology, Mutual Intelligibility
