Sökning: "Papua New Guinea"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Papua New Guinea.
1. Topics in the grammar of Kuot, a non-Austronesian language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes certain areas in the grammar of the little-known Kuot language, spoken by some 1,500 people in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. Kuot is an isolate, and is the only non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of that province. The analyses presented here are based on original data from 18 months of linguistic fieldwork. LÄS MER
2. Having head and showing knowledge : language shift, Christianity and notions of self in a Papua New Guinean village
Sammanfattning : In the swampy jungles of northern Papua New Guinea lies an isolated little villagepopulated by about 100 people called Gapun. The majority of the villagers of Gapun are biormultilingual, but their mother tongue is a vernacular language which they call Taiap. LÄS MER
3. Fighting Lucifer : the state and its enemies in Papua New Guinea
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4. Language, literacy and code-switching in a Papua New Guinean village
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the language and sociolinguistic practices of a small group of people living in a village called Gapun in the Papua New Guinean swamps. Gapun has traditionally been a highly multilingual society, but today two languages dominate the villagers’ verbal repertoire, the lingua franca Tok Pisin and the local vernacular Taiap. LÄS MER
5. Sagali and the Kula : A Regional Systems Analysis of the Massim
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with developing a consistent regional perspective on the Massim peoples of southeastern Papua New Guinea, a task largely neglected by earlier anthropological studies, it is claimed, or, when sometimes attempted, unsuccessfully accomplished for a number of reasons, both methodological and theoretical. The author uses a comparative approach for investigating a selection of Massim societies. LÄS MER