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Derek Bickerton’s Bastard Tongues
(Note: This is a post I wrote in August 2011 which I though was lost in the ether when I switched my blog hosting service, but I had luckily e-mailed it unknowingly to myself, so here it is! This was...
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Dude, Guëy, Brah: taking a stance
“How do speakers use linguistic form to create stances, why do they take these stances up, and how are forms associated with stances?” (Kiesling 2011) In the 1982 film, Fast Times at Ridgemount High,...
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Pidgin and the Legacy of Sugar in Hawai‘i
“When the infernal machine of plantation slavery began to grind its wheels, iron laws of economics came into play, laws that would lead to immeasurable suffering but would also, and equally...
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