oai:pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu:1633038
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OLAC Record oai:pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu:1633038 |
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| Title: | Language shift and cultural reproduction : socialization, self, and syncretism in a Papua New Guinean village | |
| Abstract: | Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction is a fascinating anthropological study of language and cultural change among a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Don Kulick examines why the villagers of Gapun--a rural and relatively isolated community--are abandoning their vernacular in favor of Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guinea, despite their attachment to their own language as a source of identity and as a tie to their lands. He draws on an examination of village language socialization practices and on Marshall Sahlins' ideas about structure and event to demonstrate how the villagers' day-to-day interactions, their attitudes toward language, children, change, and personhood, all contribute to a shift in language and culture that is beyond their understanding and control. The first detailed documentation of such a process, Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction places linguistic change within an interpretive framework and treats language as a symbolic system that affects, and is affected by, the thoughts and actions of everyday life | |
| Creator: | Kulick, Don | |
| Date: | 1992 | |
| Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-313) and index | |
| Extent: | xvi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | |
| Format: | unmediated | |
| volume | ||
| Identifier: | ISBN: 0521414849 (hardback) | |
| ISBN: 9780521414845 (hardback) | ||
| Identifier (URI): | https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1633038 | |
| Is Part Of: | Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 14 | |
| Language: | English | |
| Tok Pisin | ||
| Language (ISO639): | eng | |
| tpi | ||
| Publisher: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press | |
| Spatial Coverage: | a-pp--- | |
| Papua New Guinea, Gapun | ||
| Gapun (Papua New Guinea) | ||
| Papua New Guinea | ||
| Gapun | ||
| Subject: | GN671.N5K85 1992 | |
| 305.8/009953 | ||
| Code switching (Linguistics) | ||
| Ethnology | ||
| Language and culture | ||
| Linguistic change | ||
| Manners and customs | ||
| Social change | ||
| Tok Pisin language--Grammar | ||
| Tok Pisin language--Morphology | ||
| Papua New Guinea--Gapun | ||
| Subject (LCSH): | Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Gapun | |
| Language and culture--Papua New Guinea--Gapun | ||
| Code switching (Linguistics)--Papua New Guinea--Gapun | ||
| Gapun (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs | ||
| Subject (OLAC): | anthropological_linguistics | |
| morphology | ||
| Type: | text | |
| Type (DCMI): | Text | |
| Type (OLAC): | language_description | |
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| Archive: | Pacific Collection at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Hamilton Library | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu:1633038 | |
| DateStamp: | 2016-05-05 | |
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| Citation: | Kulick, Don. 1992. Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 14. | |
| Terms: | area_Europe area_Pacific country_GB country_PG dcmi_Text iso639_eng iso639_tpi olac_anthropological_linguistics olac_language_description olac_morphology | |