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Buck, Elizabeth – World Englishes, 1986
Discusses the language and linguistic transformation of Hawaii, viewing language as socially constitutive, creative, and recreative and pointing out similarities between the language transformation and the Western penetration of Hawaii. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Acculturation, English (Second Language), Hawaiian, Language Attitudes