Circumlocution in Tok Pisin

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Tok Pisin as a pidgincreole
• 1.1 Pidgins and creoles
• 1.1.1 Types of pidgins and creoles
• 1.1.2 Origins of pidgins and creoles
• 1.2 Tok Pisin
• 1.2.1 Sociohistorical background
• 1.2.2 Selected linguistic features
• 1.2.2.1 Morphology
• 1.2.2.2 Syntax
• 1.2.2.3 The lexicon
• 1.3 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 2. Circumlocution: Theoretical foundations
• 2.1 Circumlocution in literature, the media and translated texts
• 2.2 Circumlocution in Second Language Acquisition
• 2.3 Circumlocution in pidgins and creoles
• 2.4 Circumlocution in anomic aphasia
• 2.5 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 3. Investigating circumlocutions: Methodological considerations
• 3.1 The degree of complexity, parts of speech and categories of circumlocutions
• 3.2 Morphological analysis
• 3.3 Metonymies and metaphors
• 3.4 The Melanesian worldview
• 3.5 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 4. Corpus linguistics and investigating circumlocutions
• 4.1 Corpus linguistics
• 4.2 Corpus tools
• 4.2.1 Word list
• 4.2.2 KWIC (Key Word in Context)
• 4.2.3 n-grams
• 4.3 Statistical measures
• 4.3.1 Absolute and relative frequency
• 4.4 Data
• 4.4.1 The Wantok corpus
• 4.4.2 Dictionaries
• 4.4.3 Circumlocution extraction procedure
• 4.5 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 5. Frequency of circumlocutions, the origin of their components and their replacements
• 5.1 Frequency of circumlocutions
• 5.2 Keywords in circumlocutions
• 5.3 Origin of words in circumlocutions
• 5.4 Orthographic variation
• 5.5 Lexical replacements
• 5.6 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 6. The structure of circumlocutions: Degree of complexity and syntactic patterns
• 6.1 Degree of complexity
• 6.2 Headedness
• 6.2.1 Left-headed circumlocutions
• 6.2.2 Linear circumlocutions
• 6.2.3 Right-headed circumlocutions
• 6.2.4 Left- or right-headed circumlocutions
• 6.3 Grammatical patterns
• 6.3.1 Nominal circumlocutions
• 6.3.2 Verbal circumlocutions
• 6.3.3 Adjectival circumlocutions
• 6.3.4 Adverbial circumlocutions
• 6.4 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 7. Semantics of circumlocutions
• 7.1 Categories
• 7.1.1 Categories of nominal circumlocutions
• 7.1.2 Categories of verbal circumlocutions
• 7.1.3 Categories of adjectival circumlocutions
• 7.1.4 Categories of adverbial circumlocutions
• 7.2 Metonymies
• 7.2.1 Whole ICM and Its Part(s)
• 7.2.1.1 Thing-and-Whole ICM
• 7.2.1.2 Constitution ICM
• 7.2.1.3 Complex Event ICM
• 7.2.1.4 Category-and-Member ICM
• 7.2.1.5 Category-and-Property ICM
• 7.2.2 Part(s) of ICM
• 7.2.2.1 Action ICM
• 7.2.2.2 Causation ICM
• 7.3 Metaphors
• 7.3.1 Metaphors of emotions
• 7.3.2 Metaphors of communication and language
• 7.3.3 Metaphors of thinking
• 7.3.4 Metaphors of plants
• 7.3.5 Metaphors of the human body
• 7.3.6 Metaphors of health
• 7.3.7 Metaphors of companies and institutions
• 7.3.8 Miscellaneous metaphors
• 7.4 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 8. The Melanesian worldview reflected in circumlocutions
• 8.1 Work
• 8.2 Compensation
• 8.3 Ritual
• 8.4 Food
• 8.5 Land
• 8.6 Education
• 8.7 Ancestors
• 8.8 Clan
• 8.9 Concluding remarks
• Conclusions
• References
• Appendix 1. Frequency list of circumlocutions
• Appendix 2. Glossary