Includes bibliographical references and index.

Not in retrospective : the future of pidgin and creole research / Umberto Ansaldo & Miriam Meyerhoff -- Sub-Saharan Africa / Ana Deumert -- The Arab world / Stefano Manfredi -- Indian Ocean creoles / Guillaume Fon Sing & Daniel Véronique -- South and South East Asia / Nala H. Lee -- Australia and the South West Pacific / Felicity Meakins -- Contact varieties of Japan and the North West Pacific / Kazuko Matsumoto & David Britain -- North America and Hawai'i / Sarah J. Roberts -- Caribbean, South and Central America / Bettina Migge -- The Atlantic / Kofi Yakpo & Norval Smith -- Pidgins and creoles in Eurasia : the consolation of philology / Anthony P. Grant -- Creole arts and music / Käthe Managan -- The rise of pidgin theatre in Hawai'i / Tammy Haili'ōpua Baker -- Creoles in literature : talking story with Lee A. Tonouchi, 'Da Pidgin Guerrilla' on Pidgin in the local literatures of Hawai'i / Micheline Soong & Lee A.Tonouchi -- Identity politics / Nicholas Faraclas -- Creoles, education and policy / Denise Angelo -- Identity and mixed languages : youth and urban varieties / Ellen Hurst-Harosh -- Pidgins and creoles : new domains, new technologies / Theresa Heyd -- Im/mobilities / Lisa Lim -- Variation in pidgin and creole languages / Miriam Meyerhoff -- On the history of pidgin and creole studies / Rachel Selbach -- The typology of pidgin and creole Languages / Viveka Velupillai -- Language contact and human dispersal / Roger Blench -- Diachronic studies of pidgins and creoles / Magnus Huber -- Pidgins and creoles and the language faculty / Marlyse Baptista, Danielle Burgess & Joy P.G. Peltier -- Child acquisition of pidgins and creoles / Michele M. Kennedy -- Multilingualism and the structure of code-mixing / Eeva Sippola -- Post-structuralist approaches to language contact / Kara Fleming -- Pidgin and creole ecology and evolution / Umberto Ansaldo & Pui Yiu Szeto.

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