Pacific Languages

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824842581

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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,John Lynch
Publisher : editorips@usp.ac.fj
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education, Bilingual
ISBN : 9820201233

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Pacific Languages in Education by France Mugler,John Lynch Pdf

"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 : John Lynch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824818989

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Pacific Languages by John Lynch Pdf

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 : Albert Samuel Gatschet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : NYPL:33433088713999

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Indian Languages of the Pacific States and Territories by Albert Samuel Gatschet Pdf

Author : Matt Tomlinson,Ty P. K?wika Tengan
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760460082

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New Mana by Matt Tomlinson,Ty P. K?wika Tengan Pdf

‘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 : Niko Besnier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134974726

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Tuvaluan by Niko Besnier Pdf

Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.

Author : John Dominic Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 0824881834

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Pacific Languages by John Dominic Lynch Pdf

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.

Author : Jim Hollyman,Andrew Pawley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Austronesian languages
ISBN : UOM:39015005873743

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Studies in Pacific Languages & Cultures by Jim Hollyman,Andrew Pawley Pdf

Paper by K. Hale separately annotated.

Author : Hiroko Sato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154423922X

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Languages of the Pacific Islands by Hiroko Sato Pdf

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 : Denis Cunningham,D. E. Ingram,Kenneth Sumbuk
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853598678

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Language Diversity in the Pacific by Denis Cunningham,D. E. Ingram,Kenneth Sumbuk Pdf

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 : Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134934881

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Linguistic Ecology by Peter Mühlhäusler Pdf

In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. In contrast to the traditional portrayal of linguistic change as a natural process, the author focuses on the cultural and historical forces which drive language change. Using the metaphor of language ecology to explain and describe the complex interplay between languages, speakers and social practice, the author looks at how language ecologies have functioned in the past to sustain language diversity, and, at what happens when those ecologies are disrupted. Whilst most of the examples used in the book are taken from the Pacific and Australian region, the insights derived from this area are shown to have global applications. The text should be useful for linguists and all those interested in the large scale loss of human language.

Author : Osahito Miyaoka,Osamu Sakiyama,Michael E. Krauss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199266623

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The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim by Osahito Miyaoka,Osamu Sakiyama,Michael E. Krauss Pdf

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Author : James Richardson Logan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N13231825

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Ethnology of the Indo- Pacific Islands by James Richardson Logan Pdf

Author : Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language and culture
ISBN : MINN:31951P00085237B

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Pacific Island Languages by Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson Pdf

Author : R.B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401701457

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Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin by R.B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Jr. Pdf

This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It provides the only up-to-date overview and review of language policy in the region and challenges those interested in language policy and planning to think about how such goals might be achieved in the context of language ecology.