This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951-1996) brings together
contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas:
Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse
and Literature. The varieties covered come from English, French and Spanish lexical bases
and from places as far apart as Africa, Australia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean.
Contributions by: Roger Anderson; Derek Bickerton; Eric Chock; Emanuel Drechsel;
Diana Eades; Joseph Grimes; John Holm; John Lipski; Darrell Lum; Hiro Masuda;
John McWhorter; Salikoko S. Mufwene; Mikael Parkvall; Velma Pollard; Susan Reynolds;
John R. Rickford; Sarah Julianne Roberts; Suzanne Romaine; Armin Schwegler; Jeffrey Siegel;
John Singler; and Lise Winer.
Editors Rickford and Romaine introduce each of the papers and provide a biography
and bibliography of Sato. A short story and poems in Hawai'i Creole English,
Sato's native language and the variety which was the focus of her research and writing,
round out the collection.
