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Exploring Multilingual Hawai'i

by Scott Saft

MultilingualismLanguages in contactLanguage and cultureHawaii, social conditions

"Through an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, this book examines Hawai'i as a complex multilingual society. Focusing on situated language usage as well as underlying ideological beliefs, the book offers analyses of Hawaiian, Pidgin, Japanese, the languages of Micronesia, and the phenomenon of language mixing"--

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Book data: Open Library