Emanuel J. Drechsel is a senior faculty member of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii, M¿noa, and has regularly taught courses in linguistic anthropology, ethnohistory, and related topics. He has long been interested in non-European pidgins, and is the author of a well-received case study entitled 'Mobilian Jargon' (1997) of greater Louisiana. His more recent research has focused on the eastern Pacific.
Part I. Questions, Theories, and Methods of Historical Sociolinguistics: 1. Introduction
2. Maritime Polynesian Pidgin and Pidgin and Creole linguistics
3. Ethnohistory of speaking as a historical-sociolinguistic methodology
Part II. Historical Attestations of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin (MPP): 4. Emergence, stabilization, and expansion
5. Resilience against depidginization and relexification
6. Survival in niches
Part III. Structure, Function, and History of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin: 7. Linguistic patterns
8. History and social functions
9. Conclusions: linguistic, sociohistorical, and theoretical implications.
