User talk:Plankton~enwikiversity

Historical Background of Hawaiian Creole English
When people who don’t speak a common language try to communicate, a new language called pidgin emerges. Pidgin has a lexifier, or a language whose vocabulary it is mainly based on. When pidgin starts to become spoken by the children of the community as their first language, it is called a creole, which has its own grammatical rules. (This is different from a pidgin, which allows variability in grammar.) The majority of Pidgin speakers in Hawai’i speak a creole, often called Hawaiian Creole English or HCE. The local residents of Hawaii however, call this language “Pidgin.” To make a distinction however, the linguistics call Hawaiian Creole English Pidgin with a capital P. Hawaiian Creole English emerged after the influx of visitors from other countries and they needed a language of communication. The plantation workers of Hawaii have especially influenced this language. Pidgin has influences from languages like Portuguese, Hawaiian, and Chinese. Because workers from other countries such as Japan, the Philippines, and Korea have come to Hawaii as well during the plantation era, there are various loan words in the Pidgin language using these languages as well. Pidgin is often used by local residents of Hawaii and is an indication marker of their local identity. Pidgin is often used in advertisement as well. However, attitudes and feelings towards Pidgin vary. ]] External Sites http://www.hawaii.edu/sls/pidgin.html

Evaluations of Hawaii Creole English: A Study Among University Students
Attitudes toward Hawaii Creole English (HCE) have always varied, even among 'local' Hawaii residents. Evaluations of HCE range from affinity to revulsion stemming from HCE's precarious link to both a sociocultural identity and stigmatization as 'broken', 'bad', and 'non-standard'. While HCE remains an ever-evolving fixture in Hawaii homes and in social contexts, and despite studies which showed that HCE speaking children do, in fact, possess complex linguistic abilities (e.g., Watson-Gegeo 1994, Day 1972 ), HCE continues to be met with resistance both in and out of the classroom. As a further example of the precarious link between identity and stigmatization Sato (1991) describes how the Hawaii Board of Education's policy on Standard English (SE) communication in the classrooms was met with community backlash, resulting in the reversal of the policy (p.653). Nevertheless, despite the support that HCE seemingly receives in the community, stigmatization—whether forcibly or self imposed—persists. In a study published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Ohama, Gotay, Pagano, Boles, and Craven (2000) evaluated common associations with HCE and SE. The intent of the study was to examine whether HCE is, indeed, perceived more negatively than SE. The researchers hypothesized that HCE would be viewed less favorably on traits of superiority and quality; however, it was also hypothesized HCE would be rated more favorably on other less career-oriented traits (p. 360). The researchers sampled 197 students (181 undergraduate and 16 graduate) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Classes of students were assigned to listen to one or two 45-second stimulus audiotapes which played a short message in either SE or HCE by an individual who spoke both SE and HCE natively. The students were then asked to fill out a questionnaire rating SE and HCE on four factors: Quality, Attractiveness, Dynamism, and Superiority (p. 361-368). Results confirmed the initial hypothesis. The speaker’s language was correlated to traits of superiority, quality and dynamism: listeners rated SE higher on traits of superiority (e.g., education, intelligence, upper class, etc.) and quality (e.g., appropriateness, grammaticality, etc.) while HCE was rated higher on dynamism (e.g., active, confident, and talkative) (p. 370). However, as the researchers noted, several additional factors affected the ratings of SE and HCE. For example, ethnicity played a significant role in evaluations of SE and HCE: Hawaiians, in general, rated HCE higher than SE on traits of attractiveness. Furthermore, the knowledge of HCE was the strongest indicator of higher ratings of dynamism, attractiveness, and quality in favor of HCE (p. 371, 373). This study, while a singular example of research on evaluations of HCE and SE, situates HCE within the larger social and, perhaps more importantly, educational context, and once again, we see HCE’s precarious position between identity and stigmatization. Appropriately, the researchers in the above study conclude by considering the role of perceptions toward SE and HCE in the educational context—whether positive or negative: “Creoles and dialects denote thought patterns and processes that are unique to the culture using them. Losing a dialect or creole may mean losing the ability to think or view life in a certain way” (p. 374).

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