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Jacqueline Knörr & Wilson Trajano Filho (eds.), Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity: Language, culture, identity. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xiii, 387. Hb. €127.

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Jacqueline Knörr & Wilson Trajano Filho (eds.), Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity: Language, culture, identity. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xiii, 387. Hb. €127.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2020

Salikoko S. Mufwene
Salikoko S. Mufwene*
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Department of Linguistics University of Chicago 969 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, USAmufw@uchicago.edu
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Language in Society , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , June 2020 , pp. 488 - 489
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1 I should disclose for the reader that I submitted a contribution on this issue for this volume but the editors rejected it precisely because I argued against the abusive reference to ‘creolization’ (a term that I also find less informative than ‘the emergence of creoles’, which are structurally diverse). I also object to ‘cultural pidginization’, because the reader will discover that no simplification of any culture or anything comparable to ‘broken language’, traditionally associated with pidgins, is the case in this book. According to the editors, my contribution ‘does not really fit the overall theme and theoretical approach of the book we have in mind’ (16 July 2015), which is evident.