In sociolinguistic terms, Tok Pisin is an expanded pidgin currently undergoing creolization. |
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There are two problems with this 'language bioprogram hypothesis,' as it is known in the creolization literature. |
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If we take the idea that the world is in the process of creolization then we are not dealing with issues of hybridity but with issues of contact between culture. |
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The violence of their efforts warns against a sense that cultural creolization involves merely the intertwining of different cultural strands. |
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On the whole, American forms of Spanish are more musical and suave than the Castilian of Madrid, but it is remarkable how little deformation, or creolization, of the language has occurred. |
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The sign languages in use in the EU are more difficult to classify into language families than the spoken languages, because of language contact and creolization. |
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Some versions of the hypothesis actually propose multiple creolization events, with later ones reinforcing and broadening simplifications introduced by earlier ones. |
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Since the early 1970s and with increasing numbers, women writers have added their voices to those of men, partly regauging the concepts of creolization and of Di-nos-e-ta. |
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Creolization can take place at any point during the pidgin's life cycle, ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin. |
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