SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad DigitalCollections@SIT African Diaspora ISPs African Diaspora Collection 4-1-2004 Pidgin! Make we hear your speak, Make we know why chaw students dey luv you Desiree Pipkins Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/african_diaspora_isp Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Pipkins, Desiree, "Pidgin! Make we hear your speak, Make we know why chaw students dey luv you" (2004). African Diaspora ISPs. Paper 57. http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/african_diaspora_isp/57 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the African Diaspora Collection at DigitalCollections@SIT. It has been accepted for inclusion in African Diaspora ISPs by an authorized administrator of DigitalCollections@SIT. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Pidgin! Make we hear your speak, Make we know why chaw students dey luv you Desiree Pipkins Academic Advisor: Dr. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang ISP Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Owusu-Ansah SIT Ghana African Diaspora Spring 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abstract Introduction Chapter One: 1.1. Role of Language in Society: Language as Culture 1.2. History of English in Ghana 1.3. Resistance to English Chapter Two 2.0. Introduction to Pidgin 2.1. Origin of Ghanaian Pidgin English 2.2. Entry of Pidgin English into Senior Secondary Schools Chapter Three 3.0. Why Students Speak Pidgin English 3.1. Student Pidgin as an Argot 3.2. Code Switching with Student Pidgin 3.3. Process of Pidginization 3.4. Student Pidgin as a Gender Specific Phenomenon Chapter Four 4.0. Methodology 4.1.