Dylan

1. Dylan Jones

2. Contact Languages
 Results of cross-cultural interaction with
need of communication
 Alters both languages involved into a
new one.
 Linguistically, pidgins and creoles are
very similar
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VFX
oqfoi6I

3. Pidgins
 Reduced language composed of multiple
standard languages
 Serves the basic purpose of communication
across cultures
 Is dependant on intercultural contact
 Usually uses the lexicon of the dominant
language with the syntax of the substrate
language.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YoJw9hto
Y
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plAIqJIPxN
A&feature=related (5.30-7.30)

4. Creoles
 A pidgin that has become a first
language
 Fill a lot more contexts
 Represent new ethnic groups
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSHrb
Gktpl4

5. Impacts of Pidgins and Creoles
 Changed the view of languages
worldwide.
 Disrupts education of English
 Can become nationalised.

6. Activity
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSHrb
Gktpl4
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YoJ
w9htoY
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plAIqJ
IPxNA&feature=related (5.30-7.30)

7. Resources
 Macmillan English Language VCE Units
1 & 2, Macmillan, Jean Mulder, Kate
Burridge, Caroline Thomas, 2007.
 Love the Lingo, Victorian Association for
the Teaching of English, Kate Burridge,
Debbie De Laps, 2011.
 An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles,
Cambridge University Press, John Holm,
2000