Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea by Suzanne Romaine

Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea

Oxford Studies in Language Contact

Suzanne Romaine

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Papua New Guinea's struggle for development is intimately bound up with the history of Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin that is the product of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Pacific. The language has since become the most important lingua...

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