Language and hybridization : Pidgin tales from the China Coast

• Main Author: Bolton, Kingsley
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93722; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38379
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay looks at the history of pidgin and creole studies in the context of linguistic theory with particular reference to the study of ‘Chinese pidgin English’. It argues that, although linguistics makes the claim to be an objective and systematic science, an examination of the past reveals that...