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Although these pidgins usually have an in‐group, and sometimes politically integrative, function, very few of them have ever succeeded in being elevated to the high status of varieties used in, for example, the government, or higher courts of law, let alone higher education. Their ethnographic functions are shown to vary from that of the lingua franca in Africa and Asia to that of local vernaculars in the New World.
English pidgins: form and function English pidgins: form and functionĪBSTRACT: This paper highlights similarities and variation in both the form and function of English pidgins the world over.