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Title: | On the Possibility of Pidgin English Toponyms in Pacific Missions | Contributor(s): | Nash, Joshua (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | DOI: | 10.1075/hl.42.1.08nas | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21756 | Abstract: | This paper speculates about the possible existence of Pidgin English toponyms on the Melanesian Mission on Norfolk Island. The argument considers why modern historians and linguists studying the social and linguistic history of the Melanesian Mission missionaries, and why missionaries from earlier periods, who were documenting and studying local Melanesian languages spoken within the Mission's activities, did not provide possible available information on Pidgin English toponyms. This noted absence of an explicit focus on the toponymic lexicon of Pidgin English and other marginalised languages highlights certain metalinguistic and social priorities held by linguists. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Historiographia Linguistica, 42(1), p. 139-151 | Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1569-9781 0302-5160 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguistics 470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) 470411 Sociolinguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Psychology |
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