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Title: | Placing Pitcairn Island Placenaming Historically: Professor A. S. C. Ross, Albert W. Moverley, Henry E. Maude, and The Pitcairnese Language | Contributor(s): | Nash, Joshua (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2018 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53007 | Abstract: | This article documents a crucial element in the historiography of research into Pitcairn, the Pitcairn Island language. It considers the work of British linguist Professor Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1907-1980), Pitcairn Island’s first non-islander school teacher Albert Wadkins Moverley (1908-1953), and the founder of the discipline of Pacific history Henry Evans Maude (1906-2006) on the edited 1964 work The Pitcairnese Language, the key volume about the history and linguistics of the Pitcairn Island language. Maude’s gazetteer of Pitcairn Island placenames is evaluated with reference to the contribution it makes to The Pitcairnese Language. Ross’s correspondence, especially that with Maude, and how the data collected by Moverley, who lived on the island between 1949-1951 and who became Ross’s Ph.D student, is summarized and assessed in terms of how it contributed to The Pitcairnese Language, especially the section on Pitcairn Island placenaming (toponymy). In summary, Ross’s statement in his preface to TThe Pitcairnese Language that “any account of a language is better than no account at all’ is appraised in terms of a historiography of research into the Pitcairn Island language. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Pacific Asia Inquiry, 9(1), p. 62-74 | Publisher: | University of Guam, College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences | Place of Publication: | Guam | ISSN: | 2377-0929 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 451310 Pacific Peoples linguistics and languages 451304 Pacific Peoples cultural history 470411 Sociolinguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 130201 Communication across languages and culture 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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