Da Kine Talk
From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii
by Elizabeth Ball Carr
Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter.
"Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dialectal forms--speech that captures the flavor of Hawaii's multiracial community and reflects the successes (and failures) of immigrants from both East and West in learning to communicate in English.
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- edition1
- isbn9780824881252
- publisherUniversity of Hawai‘i Press
- publisher placeHonolulu
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