Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction

Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village

By:

Don Kulick

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language

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Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. He examines why the villagers of Gapun are abandoning their vernacular in favor of Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guinea, despite their attachment to their own language as a source of identity and as a tie to their lands. He draws on an examination of village language socialization process and on Marshall Sahlins's ideas about structure and event.

Release date NZ

April 24th, 1997

Author

Don Kulick

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

3 Tables, unspecified; 3 Maps; 12 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

336

Series

Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language

Dimensions

150x226x23

ISBN-13

9780521599269

Product ID

2011627

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