4. Some of the geographical meanings for pidgin are:
In Chinese means business
In Portuguese means ‘job or occupation’
In South American language means ‘people’
In Hebrew word ‘barter’
Definition:
Pidgin is a simple speech-form used as a means
of communication among people who do not share a
common language.
Pidgin:
5. Creole is a French word means ‘native to a locality or
country’
Definition:
Creole is a stable natural language that has
developed from a pidgin.
Creole:
6. History/Origin of pidgin and creole
Originated from temporary events:
trade
seafaring
tourism
Traumatic social situation:
wars
slavery
7. Baby talk theory
Independent parallel development theory
Nautical jargon theory
Monogenetic/relaxification theory
Universalist theory
Theories of origin:
9. A product of multi-lingual
Unstable grammar
Socially limited
Not a mean of group identification
Short lived
S-V-O syntax
No affixation
Limited vocabulary
characteristics of pidgin:
10. Product of expanded pidgin
Nativization
Consistency
Stable grammar
Expanded vocabulary
Systematic
Complex sentence structure
Long lived (attained as mother tongue)
Characteristics of creole:
12. Social situation Linguistic correlate
Marginal contact Restricted pidgin
Nativization Extended pidgin
Mother tongue development Creole
Movement towards standard
language
Decreolization
14. Pidgin Creole
No native speaker Native speaker
No language First language
Simple structure Complex structure
No identification Have identification
Unstable Stable
15. Marginal languages.
Born unconsciously from inter-linguist social
communication.
Related to each other.
Have specific characteristics.
Have geographical and social affection.
Are systematic & can be investigated or learnt.
Conclusion
