Languages Of The Pacific Islands
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Author |
: John Lynch |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2016-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824842581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824842588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pacific Languages by : John Lynch
Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of pidgin and creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information. Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.
Author |
: France Mugler |
Publisher |
: [email protected] |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9820201233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789820201231 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pacific Languages in Education by : France Mugler
"This collection of articles and interviews explores policy, practice and attitudes relating to the use of Pacific languages in education systems of most Pacific Island countries and territories, from pre-school to tertiary level. It records history ; it deals with current attitudes and prejudices ; and it focuses attention on perceived problems with the medium of education in many parts of the region."--Back cover
Author |
: Hiroko Sato |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2017-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 154423922X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781544239224 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Languages of the Pacific Islands by : Hiroko Sato
This introductory textbook on languages of the Pacific Islands was first compiled to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2013-2014. The target audience is undergraduate students with no prior coursework in linguistics and little knowledge of the Pacific Islands. All chapters have been refereed and revised. The current edition includes new chapters on Hawaiian and early Polynesian pidgins.
Author |
: Brij V. Lal |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 710 |
Release |
: 2000-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 082482265X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824822651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pacific Islands by : Brij V. Lal
An encyclopaedia of information on major aspects of Pacific life, including the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society and culture. The CD-ROM contains hyperlinks between section titles and sections, a library of all the maps in the encyclopaedia, and a photo library.
Author |
: Denis Cunningham |
Publisher |
: Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781853598678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1853598674 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Diversity in the Pacific by : Denis Cunningham
The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt policies that will support their maintenance.
Author |
: Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951P00085237B |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7B Downloads) |
Synopsis Pacific Island Languages by : Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson
Author |
: Stephen A. Wurm |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 1903 |
Release |
: 2011-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110819724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110819724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas by : Stephen A. Wurm
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author |
: Daniel Long |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2024-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040097052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040097057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Japanese Language in the Pacific Region by : Daniel Long
Long and Imamura examine language contact phenomena in the Asia Pacific region in the context of early 20th-century colonial history, focusing on the effects the Japanese language continues to have over island societies in the Pacific. Beginning in the early 20th century when these islands were taken over by the Japanese Empire and continuing into the 21st century, the book examines 5,150 Japanese-origin loanwords used in 14 different languages. It delves into semantic, phonological, and grammatical changes in these loanwords that form a fundamental part of the lexicons of the Pacific Island languages, even now in the 21st century. The authors examine the usage of Japanese kana for writing some of the local languages and the pidginoid phenomena of Angaur Island. Readers will gain a unique understanding of the Japanese language’s usage in the region from colonial times through the post-war period and well into the current century. Researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of sociolinguistics, language policy, and Japanese studies will find this book particularly useful for the empirical evidence it provides regarding language contact situations and the various Japanese language influences in the Asia Pacific region. The authors also offer accompanying e-resources that help to further illustrate the examples found in the book.
Author |
: Matt Tomlinson |
Publisher |
: ANU Press |
Total Pages |
: 391 |
Release |
: 2016-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781760460082 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1760460087 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Mana by : Matt Tomlinson
‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous sovereignty movements, Christian missions and Bible translations, the commodification of cultural heritage, and the dynamics of diaspora. Their investigations move across diverse island groups—Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawai‘i, and French Polynesia—and into Australia, North America and even cyberspace. A key insight that the volume develops is that mana can be analysed most productively by paying close attention to its ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Since the late nineteenth century, mana has been an object of intense scholarly interest. Writers in many fields including anthropology, linguistics, history, religion, philosophy, and missiology have long debated how the term should best be understood. The authors in this volume review mana’s complex intellectual history but also describe the remarkable transformations going on in the present day as scholars, activists, church leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs take up mana in new ways.
Author |
: John Terrell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521306043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521306041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistory in the Pacific Islands by : John Terrell
How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.