Sociolinguistic-ethnohistorical observations on Maritime Polynesian Pidgin in Herman Melville's two major semi-autobiographical novels of the Pacific

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-261

  Drechsel, Emanuel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnohistory of speaking; Maritime polynesian pidgin; Melville's semi autobiographical novels of the pacific; Philological reconstitution; Typee and Omoo

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249158665     PISSN: 09209034     EISSN: 15699870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jpcl.22.2.03dre     Document Type: Article

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