Linguistic Inequality in Hawaii: The Post-Creole Dilemma

Literacy in Pidgin and Creole Languages

“…Such attitudes have been reported for many P/Cs, such as Carriacou Creole (Kephart, 1992), other varieties of creole in the Caribbean (Alleyne, 1994;Winford, 1994), Krio in Sierra Leone (Fyle, 1994), Nigerian Pidgin (Elugbe, 1994), Hawai'i Creole (Sato, 1985), Torres Strait Creole (Shnukal, 1992) and Tok Pisin (Nidue, 1988).…”

Chapter 7. Growing up in Hawai‘i as Japanese heritage language speakers: Language, culture and identity

“…Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services Authenticated Download Date | 7/22/15 5:10 PM Caucasians) identity (Sato, 1985;Talmy, 2010) 2 . Also, research with over two hundred UHM students indicated that they rated Standard English higher on superiority and quality traits (e.g.…”

Creating Classroom Environments That Address the Linguistic and Cultural Backgrounds of Students with Disabilities

“…Pidgin English was developed by the speakers of various ethnic groups-such as the Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese who emigrated to Hawai'i to work on sugar plantations-as a means of communicating with others who spoke different languages. Thus, there are many variations of pidgin depending on the native language of the speakers (Bickerton, 1983;Sato, 1985). In Hawai'i, most children and their parents speak a form of Hawai'i Creole English in which they may mix vocabulary and grammatical structures from various languages, depending on with whom they are speaking and the topic of the conversation.…”