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The two dispersals
English As a World Language
Key-terms
Texts
Fortune
100
The part of Africa where contact was primarily based on trade and where there were no permanent settlements
What is West Africa?
100
Chinese for telephone
What is te le fung?
100
A language that has evolved from a pidgin but serves as the native language of a speech community
What is creole?
100
The text about how the ancestors created the world through language in Dreamtime
What is "The Songlines"?
100
The literal meaning of "tok pisin"
What is pidgin language/speak pidgin/speak business?
200
The American state where the first permanent British settlement was established
What is Virginia?
200
A Ukranian herkot
What is a haircut?
200
A blend of two diverse cultures or traditions
What is hybridity?
200
The text about a Norwegian linguist in search of a nearly lost language
What is "The Only Speaker of His Tongue"?
200
The literal translation of the phrase "Yu save toktok long tok pisin" in tok pisin
What is "Do you speak tok pisin"?
300
The discoverer of Australia
Who is James Cook?
300
What Italian talk about when they say schiacchenze
What is shake hands?
300
To free oneself or ones nation from colonial status
What is decolonization/decolonize?
300
The text written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o about linguistic oppression of African children in the former British colonies
What is "Decolonizing the Mind"?
300
Tok pisin for child
What is "pikinini"?
400
The decade in which the first European settlers arrived in New Zealand
What is the 1790s?
400
What the Japanese talk about when they say purodakuchibichi
What is productivity?
400
The power of the ruling class to convince other classes that their interests are the interests of all
What is hegemony?
400
The poem written by John Agard about a certain university Professor and a dictionary being assaulted
What is Listen, Mr. Oxford Don?
400
The name given to the indigenous children of Australia who were taken away from their parents and their culture
What is "The Lost Generation"?
500
The guy who wrote "Minute of Education" about the education system of India?
Who is Macaulay?
500
What Chinese talk about when they say kyapitaru gein
What is capital gain?
500
The lower or colonized classes who have little access to their own means of expression
What is subaltern?
500
The Mosaic poem written by Marlene Nourbese Philips
What is Discourse on the Logic of Language?
500
The Australian Prime Minister from 2007 until 2010, who officially apologised to the indigenous peoples of Australia
Who is Kevin Rudd?