Umberto Ansaldo is Professor in Linguistics and Head of the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, Australia. This Handbook was started at The University of Hong Kong and completed at The University of Sydney.

Miriam Meyerhoff is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Oxford. She holds an adjunct position at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Not in Retrospective: The Future of Pidgin and Creole Research - Umberto Ansaldo & Miriam Meyerhoff

Part I: Space and Place

1. Sub-Saharan Africa - Ana Deumert
2. The Arab World - Stefano Manfredi
3. Indian Ocean Creoles - Guillaume Fon Sing & Daniel Véronique
4. South and Southeast Asia - Nala H. Lee
5. Australia and the South West Pacific - Felicity Meakins
6. The contact Varieties of Japan and the North-West Pacific - Kazuko Matsumoto & David Britain
7. North America and Hawai'i - Sarah Roberts
8. Caribbean, South and Central America - Bettina Migge
9. The Atlantic - Kofi Yakpo & Norval Smith
10. Pidgins and Creoles in Eurasia: The Consolation of Philology - Anthony P. Grant

Part II: Usage, Function and Power

11. Creole Arts and Music - Käthe Managan
12. The Rise of Pidgin Theatre in Hawai'i - Tammy Haili'¿pua Baker
13. Creoles in Literature: Talking Story with Lee A. Tonouchi, 'Da Pidgin Guerrilla' on Pidgin in the Local Literatures of Hawai'i - Micheline M. Soong & Lee A. Tonouchi
14. Identity Politics - Nicholas Faraclas
15. Creoles, Education and Policy - Denise Angelo
16. Identity and Flexible Languages: Youth and Urban Varieties - Ellen Hurst-Harosh
17. Pidgins and Creoles: New Domains, New Technologies - Theresa Heyd
18. Im/Mobilities - Lisa Lim
19. Variation in Pidgin and Creole Languages - Miriam Meyerhoff

Part III: Framing

20. On the History of Pidgin and Creole Studies - Rachel Selbach
21. The Typology of Pidgin and Creole Languages - Viveka Velupillai
22. Language Contact and Human Dispersal - Roger Blench
23. Diachronic Studies of Pidgins and Creoles - Magnus Huber
24. Pidgins and Creoles and the Language Faculty - Marlyse Baptista, Danielle Burgess & Joy P.G. Peltier
25. Child Acquisition of Pidgins and Creoles - Michele M. Kennedy
26. Multilingualism and the Structure of Code-Mixing - Eeva Sippola
27. Post-Structuralist Approaches to Language Contact - Kara Fleming
28. Pidgin and Creole Ecology and Evolution - Umberto Ansaldo & Pui Yiu Szeto

Index