For Sociolinguistics Course.

1. WELCOME TO MY
PRESENTATION
Refana Shaheen Tonu
Id: M 190102726
8th Batch

2. Pidgin & creole
Pidgin
A pidgin is nobody's mother
tongue, and it is not a real
language at all: it has no
elaborate grammar, it is very
limited in what it can convey,
and different people speak it
differently.
-R.L. Trask and Peter Stockwell

3. Creole
"A creole has a jargon or a pidgin in its
ancestry; it is spoken natively by an entire
speech community, often one whose ancestors
were displaced geographically so that their ties
with their original language and sociocultural
identity were partly broken. Such social
conditions were often the result of slavery.“
- John A. Holm

4. Origin of Pidgin & Creole
Temporary
Events
Seafaring
TradeTourism
Traumatic
Social
Situation
Wars Slavery

5. Process of pidginization &creolization
Pidgin
Creole
Simplification
Expansion

6. Characteristics
pidgin
• Product of
multi-lingual
• Unstable
Grammar
• Socially limited
Creole
• Product of
expanded pidgin
• Stable Grammar
• Attained as
mother tongue

7. examplespidgin
• Pidgin Chinese English
• Tok Pisin
• Juba Arabic
• Hawaiian Pidgin
creole
• Jamaican Creole
• Hawai’ian Creole
• Haitian Creole