Tuesday, October 28, 2014
What's a pidgin? The Cultural Significance of Hawaiian Pidgin
A few days ago, I heard an NPR broadcast about pidgin language in Hawaii. A pidgin language "mixes a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, [language of international communication], with another language" (Rubenstein, 112). I wasn't able to find the full broadcast that I listened to but I found a short radio broadcast and excerpt from a video that provide a great glimpse of the unique, diverse, pidgin of Hawaii.
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I took a sociolinguistics class oh, like 12 years ago, and I remember someone did their final project on pidgin languages. They are so fascinating!
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