Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
Their Social Contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3205011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dell Hymes (University of Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania , USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 263 |
| Pages | 99-109 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2020-2088 |
| OpenAlex | W3032747694 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Sociolinguistic debates around the definitions and significance of "pidgin" and "creole" languages were increasing in the 1960s and the SSRC's Committee on Sociolinguistics played a role in cultivating these discussions. This 1968 report by Dell Hymes summarizes issues raised at a conference convened by the Council at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, to better understand the historical development, the grammatical and lexical evolutions, and the social uses of pidgin and creole languages. Though he highlights how social science can better inform research on pidginization and creolization, Hymes identifies knowledge gaps, among them the nature of the relationship between these languages and national identity, and more broadly the lack of historical and social scientific knowledge of this topic
Aesthetics · Creole language · Creolization · Linguistics · Pidgin · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |