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

by Jeff Siegel

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 the pidgins and other language varieties developed to meet the needs of peoples from different linguistic backgrounds and different cultures, and it brings a new standard of coverage and comprehensiveness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521106168
• ISBN13: 9780521106160
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"