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 | | Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas |
 | | [A comprehensive survey of lingue franche, pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and the various degrees and types of bilingualism that are found or have been attested in the Pacific hemisphere, from Australia and New Guinea through the Pacific Islands, China, and Northeast Asia, to the Americas. |
 | | London & New York: Routledge, 1996] called an “ecological” view of language: Since language contact and intercultural communication is virtually universal, “languages cannot be meaningfully studied as isolated, atemporal and abstract systems, but need to be seen as inseparable from the cultural and historical embedding of their use” (Vol. |
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