Christoph Neuenschwander

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christoph Neuenschwander is involved.

Journal

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Edited by Bettina Migge

ISSN 0920-9034 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9870

Articles

Neuenschwander, Christoph 2025 Pacific transformations of the ‘Country of Babel’: The legacy of a colonial language myth in nationalist discourses on Hawai‘i Creole and Tok Pisin Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 40:2, pp. 262–301 | Article

The story of Babel has been used for centuries to prompt negative evaluations of linguistic diversity. It has been instrumentalised in debates about English, to attest linguistic purity and propagate the standard variety. In (post)colonial discourses, Babel came to project imperialist language… read more

Neuenschwander, Christoph 2025 Review of Schneider (2025): Liquid Languages: Constructing Languages in Late Modern Cultures of Diffusion Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 40:2, pp. 431–435 | Review