Pacific Island Language Issues

(Proposed course)

Joel Bradshaw	Tel: 808-956-6389
Centre for Korean Studies	Fax: 808-956-2213
University of Hawai'i	Email: bradshaw@hawaii.edu
1881 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822

Introduction to the linguistic history of the Pacific Islands and the resulting issues now facing individuals, families, schools, nations, and economies in the region.

WEEK	TOPICS	READINGS
1	3 major regions, 3 waves of settlement	maps
2	Papuan languages	Foley 1986:1 - 30, 269 - 283
3 - 4	Austronesian settlement Methodology of reconstructing prehistory Oceanic languages	Bellwood 1991 Pawley & Ross 1993 Pawley & Ross 1995
5	Melanesians archaeology & linguistics; language contact	Spriggs 1995 Dutton 1995
6	Micronesians sailing; archaeology & linguistics	Horridge 1995 Rehg 1995
7	Polynesians sound correspondences, sound systems	Clark 1979 Schütz 1994:322 - 338
8	catch-up, review, and evaluation
9 - 10	Europeans writing systems, standardization, literacy	Rensch 1991 Schütz 1994:98 - 133, 185 - 205
10 - 11	Pacific pidgins & creoles linguistic identities	Crowley 1990:1 - 33, 369 - 405
12 - 13	language policy, planning, & power	Romaine 1992:1 - 98, 318 - 343 Kulick 1992:1 - 25, 248 - 267
14	language endangerment & survival	Mühlhäusler 1992 Crowley 1995
15	catch-up, review, and evaluation

Readings

Bellwood, Peter. 1991. The Austronesian dispersal and the origin of languages. Scientific American, July, 88 - 93.

Clark, Ross. 1979. Language. In The prehistory of Polynesia, ed. by J. D. Jennings, 249 - 270. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Crowley, Terry. 1990. Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The emergence of a national language in Vanuatu. Oxford Studies in Language Contact. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Chapters:

1. The language and its name, 1 - 33;
7. Lukluk bak: Recurrent themes, 369 - 405.

---. 1995. Melanesian languages: Do they have a future? Oceanic Linguistics 34:327 - 344.

Dutton, Tom. 1995. Language contact and change in Melanesia. In BFT, 192 - 213.

Foley, William A. 1986. The Papuan languages of New Guinea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters:

1. Introduction, 1 - 14; 2. Language in its social context, 15 - 30;
8. Papuan languages and New Guinea prehistory, 269 - 283.

Grimes, Joseph E. 1995. Language endangerment in the Pacific. Oceanic Linguistics 34:1 - 12.

Horridge, Adrian. 1995. Austronesian conquest of the seañupwind. In BFT, 134 - 151.

Kulick, Don. 1992. Language shift and cultural reproduction: Socialization, self, and syncretism in a Papua New Guinea village. Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language, 14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters:

Introduction: Papua New Guinea and the study of language shift, 1 - 25;
Conclusion: The process of language shift, 248 - 267.

Mühlhäusler, Peter. 1992. Preserving languages or language ecologies? A top-down approach to language survival. Oceanic Linguistics 31:163 - 182.

Pawley, Andrew, and Malcolm Ross. 1993. Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history. Annual Review of Anthropology 22:425 - 459.

---. 1995. The prehistory of Oceanic languages: A current view. In BFT, 39 - 74.

Rehg, Kenneth L. 1995. The significance of linguistic interaction spheres in reconstructing Micronesian prehistory. Oceanic Linguistics 34:305 - 326.

Rensch, Karl H. 1991. The language of the noble savage: Early European perceptions of Tahitian. In Currents in Pacific linguistics: Papers on Austronesian languages and sociolinguistics in honour of George W. Grace, ed. by Robert Blust, 403 - 414. Canberra: Australian National University.

Romaine, Suzanne. 1992. Language, education, and development: Urban and rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Chapters:

1. Introduction, 1 - 22;
2. Historical development of Tok Pisin, 23 - 54;
3. Language, education, and development: From precolonial to postcolonial society, 55 - 98;
9. Tok Pisin i go we?, 318 - 343.

Schütz, Albert. 1994. The voices of Eden: A history of Hawaiian language studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaiëi Press. Chapters:

7. Fixing the letters, 98 - 133;
10. Take my word for it, 185 - 205;
15. Hawaiian and Polynesian, 322 - 338.

Spriggs, Matthew. 1995. The Lapita culture and Austronesian prehistory in Oceania. In BFT, 112 - 133.

Note: BFT = Bellwood, Peter, James J. Fox, and Darrell Tryon, eds. 1995. The Austronesians: Historical and comparative perspectives. Canberra: Australian National University.

[Subject: Pacific/Comparative, Language]

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