Christine Schreyer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christine Schreyer is involved.

Article

Schreyer, Christine 2015 Community consensus and social identity in alphabet development: The relationship between Kala and Jabêm Written Language & Literacy 18:1, pp. 175–199 | Article

In the Huon Gulf area of Papua New Guinea, the indigenous language Jabêm was one of the languages of first contact for Lutheran German Missionaries, circa 1900. As a result, Jabêm became a language of the church and, later, a language of education. In both domains, written materials were commonly… read more