TPidgim Emgish
Wiar happcms win people necd to communicate but have no cemmon angnagef Youmay
ja aken par in coavertions sak as tBiS er perhaps youve witmeswed on fmm a ore
comfortablc distance. They gesturc. they talk with their hands and feet. and 一 somewhat
surprisingly 一 they speak. as well. That is surprising becasse they really cannot hope tbat
amyopc w山 undcrstand much morc than their moodLif hr or she camt undcrstand thr languagr_
But they go ahead and speak anyway. and we can understand bits and pieces of what they say
by paying clow attcnGon to thc rrst of the communicstem
A がggiz is a simplihied form of language dcvclopcd by speakkcrs who otherwise share no
omon languamw This means oi course that pidgins begin in mmultiingual* stuations 一 where
ai least two. and more likcly seweral languagcs cocxist. ( ) ). pidgins spring up in rading
rmters or in areas umdcr industriabzation (including agricultursl industmahzation. tbat
plantanion) They develop bere because the opportuniies for trade and work attractlarge
mambers or people with diEernt native tongues
Thc term pidgin dcvlopcd from apidgin pronumciatiop of busness: busncss Engish
became pidgin English・ A pidgin in the technical snsc is a sort oflanguage scrving the
meeds of a community. Thus a pidgn is not simply thc brokcn Engiish of a waiter in a ipreign
restaurant (who spcaks his native language with his co-worikers). por is it an idiots verson ofa
language. or a kind of inevitable deterioration* in tbe bands of barbarians*。 ( づ )。
robably the morc intelieeat and ambidoms people in s culpure who master the cpcrsy and
couragw needed for the move to an industrial or market amea
Somc pcopks gcl that pidgins smc wag becatsc cf the Best snd os way they py with
hc structural patterns of their basc language。 In a scnsr.the charge is correct pidgins have no
respect for the grammars of tbeir base angrages But 下i doesnt make pidgins wrong since
he radical simphification we find in pidgins servcs a worthwisls gpal- communicahon。 Because
ofits simple structure a pidgin is easier to learn than other languagcs_ By providing a means of
communication in a community. it fac抽tates tbe integration* of newcomers who would have a
much more dificult time larning a standard Europcan language_
Tinaly. mdgins rc a reahty whosc cxistcpce is pot bject to dkbate。 Tbcr re dozeps of
dgins. many of which show no signs of dying out Since tey arisc sponiapeously wherever
people need to talk. pidgins probably represcnt the primative communication system out of
which our more respected modern languages dcveloped。 This fact alonc makes them wel
orth our attenton
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