{"id":25626,"date":"2014-07-02T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25626"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:42:09","slug":"maritime-polynesian-pidgin-focus-of-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/02\/maritime-polynesian-pidgin-focus-of-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Polynesian pidgin focus of new book"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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Emanuel J. Drechsel<\/strong> of interdisciplinary studies<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa published a new book on pidgin entitled Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English<\/em><\/a>. The book is part of the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, a series of publications that approaches language contact from a range of disciplines.<\/p>\n

Drechsel’s book is a philological and ethnohistorical study of how Europeans interacted with Eastern Polynesians. Drechsel lends historical-sociolinguistic support to an area-wide Polynesian-based pidgin from early colonial times through the mid-nineteenth century in place of a European variety.<\/p>\n

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific<\/em> redefines the understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.<\/p>\n

More on Drechsel<\/h2>\n

\"Emanuel<\/p>\n

Drechsel has regularly taught courses in linguistic anthropology, ethnohistory and other related topics at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa.<\/p>\n

His interest in non-European pidgins also inspired his work behind the well-received case study entitled Mobilian Jargon<\/em> (1997) of greater Louisiana, which focuses on the Muskogean-based American Indian pidgin of the Mississippi valley. Drechsel’s more recent work focuses on the eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n

—By Kapiʻolani<\/span> Ching<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Professor Emanuel J. Drechsel publishes Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-25626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25626"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150854,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626\/revisions\/150854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}