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  • Non-standard vernaculars in education
  • Loreto Todd
  • Journal: English Today / Volume 30 / Issue 1 / March 2014
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2014, pp. 60-61
  • Print publication: March 2014
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    Even before one opens this book, a potential reader is impressed by the suggested coverage and by the quality of the authors, two of whom are very well known in the fields of creolistics, education and linguistics. A closer survey confirms the coverage, revealing a listing and categorisation of 1626 (p. xviii) or 1624 (p. xix) texts written over the last fifty years and covering.

  • Pidginization and Creolization
  • Loreto Todd
  • Journal: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics / Volume 1 / March 1980
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2008, pp. 19-24
  • Print publication: March 1980
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    Pidginization is a linguistic process that occurs when people who do not speak the same language come into contact. It involves the simplification of the contacting language and the exploitation of linguistic common denominators. It is essentially an oral process and limited communication. Pidiginization seems to involve the use of base forms, a reduction in or elimination of case endings, inflections and prepositions, a simple and unified method of indicating temporal deistinctions, negation and interrogation, and the meaning of verbal communication is often reinforced by intonation, gestures and, on some occasions, mime.