Keolakawai K.G. Spencer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Keolakawai K.G. Spencer is involved.
Articles
2025 A versatile placeholder in Hawai‘i Creole: The case of polyfunctional da kine Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
A placeholder is a dummy element with which a speaker fills the grammatical slot of a target form that they are unable or unwilling to produce. Despite the growing body of work on placeholders, no extensive attention has been paid to placeholders in pidgin and creole languages. In this paper, we… read more
2024 [Japanese] toilets are not garbage cans: Discriminatory multilingual signage in the Linguistic Landscape of Japan Linguistic Landscape 10:3, pp. 253–272 | Article
Traditional linguistic landscape research focuses on the diversity, vitality, and structure of languages in public spaces. However, this study takes a critical lens and examines how certain multilingual signage reflects the normalised, harmful ideologies which target minorities in Japan. The… read more