{"product_id":"reconciling-universalists-and-substratists-creole-genesis-according-to-salikoko-mufwene-von-franziska-buch","title":"Reconciling Universalists and Substratists","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Anglistik\/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar English-Related Pidgins and Creoles, language: English, abstract: By way of an introduction to the following paper, I would like to draw here on a quote\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etaken from one of Salikoko Mufwene's essays: \"...creolists generally agree on the nature of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe sociohistorical contexts which have produced these languages, but they disagree\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eessentially on the natures of the linguistic processes which resulted in them.\" (1986:129).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sentence quite neatly captures what the general pidgin\/creole-debate is all about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe various approaches to pidginization and creolization and on how, i.e. by which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunderlying processes, the respective language systems supposedly came into being have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis one thing in common: they all entail, respectively proceed from the assumption in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst place, that they have something decisive to say about the nature of language in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore the different positions are often defended most decidedly, trying, or so it seems,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto lay claim to a final definition of language in one or the other light. As such, I like to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edescribe this phenomenon as some kind of linguistic-philosophical debate. And this is what\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe subject of the following paper shall be about: What are the various approaches, how\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econvincing are they, i.e., who has the best arguments or is able to disprove opposing views\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebest? In this sense, the following will be a theoretical rather than practical, case-study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epaper. The discussion can be roughly described in terms of two major opposing viewpoints:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe universalist one and a more cognitive-oriented, functional-pragmatic. The latter is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecalled substratist for the most. The two camps tend to put either more weight on the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estructural or the sociohistorical aspect respectively. It is especially the nativization phase,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknown as creolization, which interests me most in this paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640207619\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCreole Genesis According to Salikoko Mufwene\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640207619","offer_id":39441058136157,"sku":"9783640207619","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_7fcf6b18-43b0-443e-8331-e64b68a273bd.jpg?v=1786249872","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/reconciling-universalists-and-substratists-creole-genesis-according-to-salikoko-mufwene-von-franziska-buch","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}