Peter Mühlhäusler
Biographic Data
| ID | 150482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Mühlhäusler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Mühlhäusler |
| SIGNATURE | MÜHLHÄUSLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Language and the world
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Linking language and the environment
The Creole legacy of a bounteous mutineer
Ross and Moverley's The Pitcairnese Language (1964) revealed that its word [mɔːgə] ‘thin’could only be attributed to Edward Young who, alone of the Bounty mutineers, was born on the Caribbean island of St Kitts. This suggested that other Kittitian influences might be found in the speech of the mutineers' descendants, most of whom now live on Norfolk Island. Table 1 lists 50 such items which are potentially attributable to Young. We also discuss t…
On the origins of Pitcairn-Norfolk
The attraction of looking at Pidgin and Creole languages to gain understanding about the origin of human language and weighty matters such as the nature - nurture debate is derived from the view that many Creolists subscribe to: That ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis. This view combined with the Cartesian view that there must be a general or universal grammar underlying the grammatical features of all languages is articulated, for instance, …
Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas
Language form and language substance
This paper argues that creolistics has tended to overemphasize the formal and general properties of Creole languages to the neglect of their substantive and singular lexical properties. Rather than assuming that Creoles can express anything their speakers need or want to say as soon as they come into being, this paper shows, with data from a range of Creoles, that lexical adaptation to new natural environments is a prolonged gradual process. The …
Some notes on the ontology of Norf’k
Ecology of Languages
The focus of this article is the ecology of languages. The first use of the ecology metaphor in linguistics is found in a paper by Voegelin and Schutz on language varieties, where a distinction between intralanguage and interlanguage ecology is drawn. The metaphor was introduced in Haugen's paper, titled "The Ecology of Language", in which he defines it as "the study of interactions between any given language and its environment". Characteristic …
The college of St. Barnabas on Norfolk Island and its languages
Multifunctionality in Pitkern-Norf’k and Tok Pisin
This paper investigates claims as to the role of categorial multifunctionality in the Pitkern-Norf’k (PN) language. It concludes that the grammar of this construction is far less productive than that of either English or Tahitian (the principal substratum language). Essentially, multifunctionality in PN is a subset of English. In this, it is very different from Tok Pisin, which developed an independent system of categorial multifunctionality over…
The Pitkern-Norf’k language and education
This paper examines the role that educational policies and practices have played in weakening the Norf’k language, a contact language that developed among British sailors and their Tahitian entourage on Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century. It is argued that the education system was only one of several factors in the decline of Norf’k and that its projected revival will require more than just supportive educational measures
Environmental Discourses
Discourses concerned with the perceived global environmental crisis have increased dramatically over the past couple of decades. This review consists of an ethnographic analysis of the principal components of environmental discourses as well as a discussion of the approaches employed to analyze them. These include linguistic discourses (ecolinguistics, ecocritical linguistics, discourse analysis) as well as approaches developed within other disci…
Simple English in the South Seas Evangelical Mission
The general point of this paper is to highlight the important role of Christian missions in the development of language planning. We document this with a case study: the attempt of the South Seas Evangelical Mission to devise a simplified English, intermediate between Pidgin English and full Standard English for their mission work in the south west Pacific. The relatively unsophisticated approach to corpus planning by this body is contrasted with…
Language endangerment and language revival
Books reviewed in this article:David Crystal, Language DeathLeanne Hinton and Ken Hale (eds.), The Green Book of Language Revitalization in PracticeDaniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
Linguistic Ecology
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. In contrast to the traditional portrayal of…
Pidgin English and the Melanesian Mission
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Changing names for a changing landscape
Desert islands such as Norfolk in the south-west Pacific offer important insights into the genesis and development of languages. The paper addresses the particular issue of the origin of place names. It shows the tension between the different groups that settled on the island since 1788 and pays particular attention to the diverging naming practices of British colonial administrators and Pitcairn Islanders. It also comments on the consequences of…
Discourses of ecotourism
Humboldt, Whorf and the roots of ecolinguistics
Language Planning and Language Ecology
In an ecological approach language planning is seen as a process which is part of and closely interrelated with a large range of natural and cultural ecological factors. It is focused on the question of maintaining a maximum diversity of languages by seeking to identify those ecological factors that sustain linguistic diversity. Linguistic diversity in turn is seen as a precondition for maintaining cultural and biological diversity. The ultimate …
Indefinite pronouns
Exploring the Missionary Position
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Papers in Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Pidgin & Creole linguistics
Early forms of Aboriginal English in South Australia, 1840s - 1920s
See under 'Depositions' in the References.vi Our hypothetical pidgin is based on English and is used primarily for trade.In the most general terms, it is formed by speakers drawing on the lexical and grammatical resources of the languages in contact, one of which is English.But the contribution of these languages is not equal, with the more powerful group (English) tending to contribute more to the language.Pcrhaps the most important principle in…
Language Planning and Language Ecology
In an ecological approach language planning is seen as a process which is part of and closely interrelated with a large range of natural and cultural ecological factors. It is focused on the question of maintaining a maximum diversity of languages by seeking to identify those ecological factors that sustain linguistic diversity. Linguistic diversity in turn is seen as a precondition for maintaining cultural and biological diversity. The ultimate …
Pronouns and People
Early forms of Aboriginal English in South Australia, 1840s - 1920s
See under 'Depositions' in the References.vi Our hypothetical pidgin is based on English and is used primarily for trade.In the most general terms, it is formed by speakers drawing on the lexical and grammatical resources of the languages in contact, one of which is English.But the contribution of these languages is not equal, with the more powerful group (English) tending to contribute more to the language.Pcrhaps the most important principle in…
Environmental Discourses
Discourses concerned with the perceived global environmental crisis have increased dramatically over the past couple of decades. This review consists of an ethnographic analysis of the principal components of environmental discourses as well as a discussion of the approaches employed to analyze them. These include linguistic discourses (ecolinguistics, ecocritical linguistics, discourse analysis) as well as approaches developed within other disci…
Linguistic human rights
Modern Englishes
Preserving Languages or Language Ecologies? A Top-down Approach to Language Survival
Sprachwandel. Von der unsichtbaren hand in der Sprache
Discourses of ecotourism
A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]
This paper develops a model for the evolution of language that is consistent with semanticist and pragmaticist interpretations of the forms and functions of language and the processes of language acquisition and language change. The proximate aspect of the model emphasizes the social contexts of language acquisition and language change; its adaptive aspect emphasizes the sociobiological concept of communication as social manipulation. Both aspect…
The politics of small languages in Australia and the Pacific
Language endangerment and language revival
Books reviewed in this article:David Crystal, Language DeathLeanne Hinton and Ken Hale (eds.), The Green Book of Language Revitalization in PracticeDaniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
Maintenance and loss of minority languages
Pidginization and Simplification of Language
T ere has been significant progress in the field of pidgin and creole studies since .Furthermore, the author has had the opportunity to carry out extensive fieldwork on New Guinea Pidgin in 1973 and 197 4 which has led him to a reappraisal of some of the ideas proposed in the original thesis .However , changes have only been made where this seemed ab solutely essential
Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origins of New Guinea Pidgin
Linking language and the environment
Changing names for a changing landscape
Desert islands such as Norfolk in the south-west Pacific offer important insights into the genesis and development of languages. The paper addresses the particular issue of the origin of place names. It shows the tension between the different groups that settled on the island since 1788 and pays particular attention to the diverging naming practices of British colonial administrators and Pitcairn Islanders. It also comments on the consequences of…
Native tongue, captive voice. The representation of the Aboriginal ‘voice’ in colonial South Australia
Metaphors others live by
Growth and Structure of the Lexicon of New Guinea Pidgin
Foreigner Talk
Referring to space
What is the use of studying pidgin and creole languages
Tracing Predicate Markers in Pacific Pidgin English
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Tracing the roots of pidgin German
The influence of the German administration on New Guinea Pidgin ‐ a preliminary study
(1975). The influence of the German administration on New Guinea Pidgin ‐ a preliminary study. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 94-111
Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origins of New Guinea Pidgin
Pidginization and Simplification of Language
T ere has been significant progress in the field of pidgin and creole studies since .Furthermore, the author has had the opportunity to carry out extensive fieldwork on New Guinea Pidgin in 1973 and 197 4 which has led him to a reappraisal of some of the ideas proposed in the original thesis .However , changes have only been made where this seemed ab solutely essential
Shorter notices
Christiane A.M. Baltaxe, Foundations of distinctive feature theory. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1978. Pp. xx + 219. Glen G. Gilbert (ed. & trans.), Pidgin and creole languages: selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt. Cambridge: University Press, 1980. Pp. vii + 157. T.L. Markey (ed. & trans.), The ethnography of variation: selected writings on pidgins and creoles by Hugo Schuchardt. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, 1979. Pp. 152. Timothy Shopen (e…
Foreigner Talk
Etymology and Pidgin and Creole Languages
The Genesis of Language
Language and communicational efficiency
Growth and Structure of the Lexicon of New Guinea Pidgin
Stinkiepoos, cuddles and related matters
Queensland Kanaka English
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Talking about environmental issues
Tracing the roots of pidgin German
Linguistic Anthropology
A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]
This paper develops a model for the evolution of language that is consistent with semanticist and pragmaticist interpretations of the forms and functions of language and the processes of language acquisition and language change. The proximate aspect of the model emphasizes the social contexts of language acquisition and language change; its adaptive aspect emphasizes the sociobiological concept of communication as social manipulation. Both aspect…
Pidgins and Creoles of Australia and the pacific
Modern Englishes
Marlis Hellinger. 1985. Englisch-orientierte Pidgin- und Kreolsprachen
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Tracing Predicate Markers in Pacific Pidgin English
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The politics of small languages in Australia and the Pacific
The Changing Pidgin Languages of the Pacific
Pidgin languages are special reduced interlingual systems of communication created by the need to communicate between speakers of two or more different languages. They originate to fulfil certain communicative requirements, adapt to changes in these requirements, and disappear once they are no longer needed, for pidgin, by definition, are second languages, used by adults and not transmitted (except in the exceptional case of creolization) to a ne…
R.B. Le Page and A. Tabouret-Keller. Acts of identity
Towards an atlas of the pidgins and creoles of the Pacific area
Overview of the pidgin and creole languages of Australia
The aim of this chapter is to provide a general picture of the pidgins and creoles spoken in Australia. Outside its scope are descriptive and historical accounts of individual languages as well as Aboriginal English, the history and structure of which differ in a number of significant aspects from that of English-derived pidgins and creoles, and are dealt with in other chapters of this volume (see Kaldor and Malcolm, Eades, and Koch).
Unawareness Without Ignorance
Philosophy (60 works) · Linguistics (57 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (36 works) · Sociology (34 works) · History (32 works) · Philosophy (28 works) · Computer Science (25 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (19 works) · Pidgin (17 works) · Creole language (16 works)