| 词汇 | pidgin |
| 释义 | pidgin noun[ C or U ] language specializeduk /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/ us /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/ a type of language that develops when people who do not speak the same language need to communicate with each other, which usually has a simple grammar and vocabulary influenced by several different languages: The vocabulary of pidgins is usually drawn mainly from the language of the dominant group. Because they live in multilingual societies, pidgin speakers are accustomed to linguistic variation. Compare creolenounspecialized Chinese Pidgin English, a trade pidgin involving Cantonese and English, developed in Guangzhou in the eighteenth century. If contact is broken off, the need for communication disappears and the pidgin may stop being used. Forms of languages & specialist dialects acrolect argot basilect cant colloquialism demotic jargon jargonistic journalese legalese lingo lingua franca patois pidginization pidginize plain English Polari psychobabble shibboleth vernacularly pidgin adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/ us /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/ language specialized used to describe a type of language that develops when people who do not speak the same language need to communicate with each other, which usually has a simple grammar and vocabulary influenced by several different languages: This study disproves the claim that speaking an English-based pidgin language will interfere with students' acquisition of English. informaldisapproving used to describe a simple way of speaking used by someone who is not fluent in a particular language (= they do not speak that language easily or well): The friends soon started exchanging messages in pidgin Swedish. I speak no Mandarin, except for a few pidgin phrases. Note:Some people prefer not to use the word "pidgin" in this sense, because it was often used in the past to suggest that people who did not learn English or another European language as their first language were less intelligent than people who did. International Sign is a pidgin form of sign language, and has a more limited vocabulary than natural sign languages. There were no trade ports in the area where it is likely that a pidgin variety could have developed. After a quick exchange in pidgin Spanish, the men got into the truck. Forms of languages & specialist dialects acrolect argot basilect cant colloquialism demotic jargon jargonistic journalese legalese lingo lingua franca patois pidginization pidginize plain English Polari psychobabble shibboleth vernacularly Pidgin noun[ U ] (alsopidgin)uk /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/ us /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/ used as the name of several different pidgin languages, and sometimes as another name for some creole languages (= languages that developed from a mixture of different languages and are now spoken by a group of people as their first language) : The information sheets are printed in English on the front and Pidgin on the reverse. The DVD has subtitles in English, Nigerian Pidgin and German. They were speaking pidgin to each other. Hawaii Creole English developed from pidgin English and is often called simply "Pidgin". The broadcaster recruited journalists to work in Ibo, Yoruba, Hausa and Pidgin. Language names Albanian American English American Sign Language Amharic Angrezi Ebonics Fijian Filipino Finno-Ugric Frisian Georgian Mongolian Montenegrin Monégasque Nahua Nahuatl Romany Semitic Vietnamese Yiddish pidgin | American Dictionarypidgin noun[ C ] us/ˈpɪdʒ·ɪn/ a language that has developed from a mixture of two or more languages and is used for communicating by people who do not speak each other’s language Examples of pidginpidgin Finally, pidgins will generally have at least three parent languages. Another claim of affinity between pidgins, creoles and other languages involves genetic relationship, and the traditional family tree representation of this. There are various reasons why historical linguists might wish to study pidgins and creoles, and more specifically pidginisation and creolisation. All across the continent, they used local languages, or at least local trading pidgins, well enough to carry out their business. Because pidgins are often intelligible over linguistically diverse areas, they have a cer tain advantage as languages of choice for vernacular literacy. The initial function of pidgins is to facilitate communication between groups of people who share no common language. The gentle song of the boatman in the poem of that title reveals pidgin's poetic resourcefulness through its sheer lyricism and beauty of form. Both pidgins and obsolescing languages are also monostylistic, and are, or become, inadequate for use as the sole language of a speech community. Five chapters organized by continent and one for pidgins and creoles are preceded by chapters on classification of languages and classification of writing systems. Examples include child language, pidgins, and ape language. Her concern is to provide a typological classification of "the linguistic products of language contact": pidgins, creoles, and bilingual mixed languages. Thus, these "inessential" features are not found in creoles because of "the fact that creoles began as pidgins". His current interests, in addition to pidgins and creoles, are language obsolescence, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. First, the distinction between pidgins and creoles is not made clear. I am also much indebted to her for more general guidance on the literature on pidgins and creoles. See all examples of pidgin These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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