Motivation in pidgin and creole genesis

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Dynamics and Change Pub Date : 2019-08-08 DOI:10.1163/22105832-00902005

Mikael Parkvall

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Abstract

Almost all creolists see creole formation as a case of (failed) second language acquisition. I argue that there are good reasons to distinguish between second language acquisition and pidginisation/creolisation, and that little is gained by equating the two. While learners have an extant language as their target, pidginisers typically aim to communicate (in any which way) rather than to acquire a specific language. In this sense, pidginisation represents, if not “conscious language change”, at least “conscious language creation”.

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混杂语和克里奥尔语起源的动机

几乎所有克里奥尔人都认为克里奥尔语的形成是第二语言习得（失败）的一种情况。我认为，有充分的理由区分第二语言习得和洋泾浜化/拼字，而将两者等同起来几乎没有什么好处。虽然学习者以一种现存的语言为目标，但洋泾浜英语学习者的目标通常是交流（以任何方式），而不是学习一种特定的语言。从这个意义上说，洋泾浜化即使不是“有意识的语言改变”，也至少代表“有意识语言创造”。

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Language Dynamics and Change LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Language Dynamics and Change (LDC) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers both new and traditional aspects of the study of language change. Work on any language or language family is welcomed, as long as it bears on topics that are also of theoretical interest. A particular focus is on new developments in the field arising from the accumulation of extensive databases of dialect variation and typological distributions, spoken corpora, parallel texts, and comparative lexicons, which allow for the application of new types of quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics. Moreover, the journal will serve as an outlet for increasingly important interdisciplinary work on such topics as the evolution of language, archaeology and linguistics (‘archaeolinguistics’), human genetic and linguistic prehistory, and the computational modeling of language dynamics.