Language Contact in a Plantation Environment: A Sociolinguistic History of Fiji by Jeff Siegel

Language Contact in a Plantation Environment: A Sociolinguistic History of Fiji

Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language

Jeff Siegel

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Jeff Siegel's fascinating book provides a sociolinguistic history of language contact in Fiji where, from the 1860s until 1920, some 90,000 labourers from other Pacific islands and from India worked on the European-owned plantations. It focuses on...

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