The Routledge handbook of pidgin and creole languages The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is a state of the art volume on Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique coverage and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found as well as in situating each area within a rich socio historical context this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into five sections its analysis covers: Areal perspectives on pidgin and creole languages; Ideology history and theoretical constructs; Pidgin and Creoles and the evolution of human languages; Sociolinguistic perspectives on pidgin and creole languages; Creoles as socio cultural forms; In all instances where two or more different languages come into contact be that in a financial transaction alongside a border during long journeys in war and in trade the possibility arises for new words sounds and phrases to transfer from one language onto another. This requires an understanding of the dynamics of different forms of labour such as slavery and the effects of power on language learning. This book will show you how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity on a par with any other language spoken out there. The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Language features original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research and is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area Not in retrospective : the future of pidgin and creole research Umberto Ansaldo & Miriam Meyerhoff Sub Saharan Africa Ana Deumert The Arab world Stefano Manfredi Indian Ocean creoles Guillaume Fon Sing & Daniel Véronique South and South East Asia Nala H. Lee Australia and the South West Pacific Felicity Meakins Contact varieties of Japan and the North West Pacific Kazuko Matsumoto & David Britain North America and Hawaii Sarah J. Roberts Caribbean South and Central America Bettina Migge The Atlantic Kofi Yakpo & Norval Smith Pidgins and creoles in Eurasia : the consolation of philology Anthony P. Grant Creole arts and music Käthe Managan The rise of pidgin theatre in Hawaii Tammy Hailiōpua Baker Creoles in literature : talking story with Lee A. Tonouchi Da Pidgin Guerrilla on Pidgin in the local literatures of Hawaii Micheline Soong & Lee A.Tonouchi Identity politics Nicholas Faraclas Creoles education and policy Denise Angelo Identity and mixed languages : youth and urban varieties Ellen Hurst Harosh Pidgins and creoles : new domains new technologies Theresa Heyd Im mobilities Lisa Lim Variation in pidgin and creole languages Miriam Meyerhoff On the history of pidgin and creole studies Rachel Selbach The typology of pidgin and creole Languages Viveka Velupillai Language contact and human dispersal Roger Blench Diachronic studies of pidgins and creoles Magnus Huber Pidgins and creoles and the language faculty Marlyse Baptista Danielle Burgess & Joy P.G. Peltier Child acquisition of pidgins and creoles Michele M. Kennedy Multilingualism and the structure of code mixing Eeva Sippola Post structuralist approaches to language contact Kara Fleming Pidgin and creole ecology and evolution Umberto Ansaldo & Pui Yiu Szeto.