Pidgin

beaches, volcanoes and such, I am sure most mainlanders have no idea what pidgin is. Just as Black English is used primarily by those in the Black communities, Pidgin is a language most of the people that live in Hawai’i use to communicate with another. We can go from typing and speaking in professional manner, to all of sudden speaking pidgin to our close friends and family. You could say Pidgin is a way of life. The way Pidgin came about was during the Sugar Plantation era when people from all…

being effective in his own way. He does this by using pidgin English to preserve and promote Nigerian culture, and by comparing the disorganization and corruption in Mene’s life to the brokenness and the disorder of the pidgin English that is spoken by the characters in the novel. In the introduction of the novel, Saro-Wiwa immediately explains to us what Rotten English is. The text stated, “Rotten English, as he explains is a blend of pidgin English, corrupted English and ‘occasional flashes…

Scholarly 1. "Chinua Achebe"- Author of this short story, Achebe himself is a fellow Nigerian that lived through the Nigerian Civil War. In "Poetry as Therapy: Reflections on Achebe's "Christmas in Biafra" and Other Poems" author Emmanuel Obiechina wrote," It could be said also of Chinua Achebe that the "madness" of Nigerian history, especially the prelude to the civil war, the brutalities of the war itself, and the aftermath, "hurt" and drove him into writing poetry, but unlike Auden, Achebe…

Rudy was put between speaking pidgin english or regular english. According to the author Puana he says ”My father embraced the Hawaiian way, while mother, perhaps in reaction, subscribed haole way when it came to her kids, my mom forbade pidgin in the house, dad spoke nothing but da kine pidgin.”(Puana P.11) This shows there is not only cultural differences in your appearance, physical, and the way they speak.…

The documentary of Black on White is a series that examines the origins of Black English, including the American slave trade, plantation life, the creole influence, and Harlem’s Jive talk. Also, it discusses the variety of English on White American speech and literature, particularly in the south. 300 hundred years ago west Africa society interfered in the slave trade. The traffic of their lives brought English to their tribes. British and American slavers trading upriver introduced the English…

John Steinbeck's East of Eden reflects the theme of a person’s inner battle between “morality and immorality”. One of the important characters in the novel, Lee, a Chinese-American servant for Adam Trask and his family is considered one of the key remarkable characters in American Literature. Although just having the job title of “servant”, Lee does more than is expected of him and becomes more of a superior assistant to the Trask Family until the utmost end. In the novel, Lee, a very…

relative to the body, along with non-manual markers such as facial expressions, head movements, shoulder raises, mouth morphemes, and movements of the body” (ASL: a brief description, n.d.). More specifically, ASL may also vary among individuals. Pidgin Signed English, or PSE, is a combination of ASL and English. Since ASL is a distinct language, it does not translate perfectly into English, with many words and syntax rules differentiating. Most often, people who learn English before ASL, are…

INTRODUCTION Language change is created by social, political and technological issues which take an important role when language is used for communication (Beard, 2004). Languages have been modified over the years in many forms ranging from phonology, semantics, morphology, lexis, syntax and other features of language. More than 360 million people speak English as a native language (Crystal, 2006). The majority of these people live in North America, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the…

writer's sympathy with the Chinese authorities, there's no lament in here for the loss of past purity. The writing can't help coming down on the side of the rich intercourse of ports and traders, the hybridity born of cultural contact, language in pidgin and port slang, and sexual encounters across the barriers of race and…

Name: George Kolanchery MODULE:1 SECTION:A Question 2: Explain, with examples, how language varies according to the context in which it is spoken or written. Although English is not the language with the largest numbers of native or ‘first’ language speakers, it has become a lingua franca. A lingua franca can be defined as “a language widely adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other’s and where one or both speakers are…