Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction

Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village

• Author(s): Don Kulick,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 317
• ISBN_10: 0521599261
  ISBN_13: 9780521599269
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. He examines why the villagers of Gapun are abandoning their vernacular in favor of Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guinea, despite their attachment to their own language as a source of identity and as a tie to their lands. He draws on an examination of village language socialization process and on Marshall Sahlins's ideas about structure and event.