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MOBILIAN JARGON
LINGUISTIC AND SOCIOHISTORICAL ASPECTS OF A NATIVE AMERICAN PIDGIN |
| By: |
Emanuel J. Drechsel |
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Hardback |
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£240.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198240333 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198240334 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 February, 1997 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Language Contact |
| Pages: |
412 |
| Description: |
Drechsel demonstrates the significance of language contact in America in this grammatical and sociohistorical study of Mobilian Jargon, an American Indian pidgin which probably originated as a lingua franca among the pre-Columbian mound-building chiefdoms of the Mississippi valley. It was extensively used from 1700 until the mid-twentieth century both among diverse groups of southeastern Native Americans, and in their interactions with non-Indians. |
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The study of Native American languages has traditionally paid little attention to linguistic convergence, just as linguists focusing on language contact have often neglected Native American cases. Drawing both on fieldwork and on archival research Emanuel Drechsel presents a grammatical, sociolinguistic, and ethnohistorical study of Mobilian Jargon, a Muskogean-based American Indian pidgin of the Mississippi valley. Mobilian Jargon functioned as an interlingual medium of communication among linguistically diverse southeastern Native American groups, and in contact between these groups and non-Indians, from at least 1700 until the mid-twentieth century. It also served as a a sociolinguistic buffer, providing native peoples with some protection against outside intrusions. The linguistic and extralinguistic evidence points to a pre-Columbian origin, and a role as a lingua franca among mound-building paramount chiefdoms of the lower Mississippi valley. Because of its focus on a non-European based case, Drechsel's study questions the universality of some concepts developed in pidgin and creole linguistics.It also carries significant implications for the ethnology of Native American peoples, and for the history of North America, suggesting that Native American peoples have had a greater historical role than has been acknowledged hitherto. |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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