William J. Samarin

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William J. Samarin

Communications

#1701

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#2525

Historical Rank

#817

USA Rank

Linguistics

#528

World Rank

#689

Historical Rank

#197

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William J. Samarin's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Chicago
Masters Linguistics University of Chicago
Bachelors Linguistics University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, William John Samarin was an American-born linguist and academic who was Professor at the Hartford Seminary and the University of Toronto. He is best known for his work on the language of religion, on the two central African languages Sango and Gbeya, on pidginization, and on ideophones in African languages.

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Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self, and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village (1994) (235)
Swahili: The Rise of a National Language (1969) (171)
Field Linguistics: A Guide to Linguistic Field Work (1967) (113)
Survey of Bantu ideophones (1971) (75)
Perspective on African ideophones (1965) (61)
Salient and substantive pidginization (1971) (51)
The Gbeya language : grammar, texts, and vocabularies (1968) (50)
Colonization and Pidginization on the Ubangi River (1982) (46)
A grammar of Sango (1969) (44)
A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise, and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951 (1991) (42)
Inventory and Choice in Expressive Language (1970) (35)
Language in religious practice (1976) (31)
The Origins of Kituba and Lingala (1991) (26)
The Art of Gbeya Insults (1969) (25)
Determining the meanings of ideophones (1967) (24)
Creolizing lag in creole Sango (1980) (23)
Glossolalia@@@Tongues of Men and Angels: The Religious Language of Pentecostalism (1978) (22)
Lingua francas of the world (1968) (21)
The Language of Religion (1987) (19)
The linguisticality of glossolalia (1968) (19)
Glossolalia as learned behavior (1969) (18)
The Black Man's Burden: African Colonial Labor on the Congo and Ubangi Rivers, 1880-1900. (1990) (18)
Protestant Missions and the History of Lingala (1986) (17)
African Language Structures, by Wm. E. Welmers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 488. (1977) (17)
A dictionary of Cameroon Pidgin English usage: Pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary (2009) (14)
Goals, roles, and language skills in colonizing central equatorial Africa (1982) (11)
Variation and variables in religious glossolalia (1972) (11)
Self-annulling prestige factors among speakers of a creole language (1966) (10)
Intersubjective and Intradialectal Variation in Gbeya Ideophones (1991) (10)
Making Wawa: The genesis of Chinook Jargon (2009) (10)
Yiddish in America: sociolinguistic description and analysis: Joshua A. Fishman, Bloomington, Indiana University and The Hague, Mouton and Co. 1965. viii, 94 pages with 12 tables=IJAL 31:2 (1965), part II (1968) (10)
Intonation in tone languages (1952) (9)
Chinook Jargon and pidgin historiography (1986) (9)
Demythologizing Plains Indian Sign Language History (1987) (8)
Language in the Colonization of Central Africa, 1880–1900 (1989) (8)
Sociolinguistic vs. Neurophysiological Explanations for Glossolalia: Comment on Goodman's Paper (1972) (8)
Sango, An African Lingua Franca (1955) (8)
Evolution in glossolalic private language (1971) (8)
Jargonization before Chinook Jargon (1988) (8)
The dynamics of Sango language spread . By Mark Karan (2007) (7)
The Black Man's Burden: African Colonial Labor on the Congo and Ubangi Rivers, 1880-1900 (1992) (7)
Versions of Kituba's origin: Historiography and theory (2013) (7)
The Source of Sango's 'BE' (1986) (6)
Linguistic Adaptation to Speech Function (1978) (6)
The creolization of pidgin morphophonology (1997) (6)
Book Review: Africa: Swahili: The Rise of a National Language (1970) (6)
Evaluational reactions to foreign accent among immigrants in Toronto (1979) (6)
Adamawa-Eastern languages (1971) (5)
The State's Bakongo burden bearers (1985) (5)
Bondjo ethnicity and colonial imagination (1984) (5)
Arctic origin and domestic development of Chinook Jargon (1996) (4)
The status of Sango in fact and fiction: on the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception (2000) (4)
The Gbaya Languages (1958) (4)
Communication by Ubangian water and word (1985) (4)
Language in Resocialization (1970) (4)
Socioprogrammed linguistics (1984) (4)
‘Official Language’: the Case of Lingala (1989) (4)
The Vocabulary of Sango (1961) (3)
The Dynamics of Morphotactic Change in Sango (1994) (3)
The Black Man’s Burden (1993) (3)
REVIEW - The Psychology of Speaking in Tongues. By John P. Kildahl. Harper and Rowe (1972) (3)
Review of Language attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A sociolinguistic overview, by Efurosibina Adegbija (1996) (3)
Testing hypotheses about African ideophones (2001) (3)
Protestant Preachers in the Prophetic Line (1973) (3)
French and Sango in the Central African Republic (1986) (2)
The Colonial Heritage of the Central African Republic: A Linguistic Perspective (1989) (2)
FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF NONSENSE LANGUAGE (1969) (2)
Creating Language and Community in Pidginization (1988) (2)
The past and present in marking futurity in Sango (2001) (2)
Making sense of glossolalic nonsense (1979) (2)
Review of Speaking in tongues: a cross-cultural study of glossolalia, by Felicitas Goodman (1974) (2)
A dictionary of Sango (1965) (2)
Prospecting Gbaya dialects (1959) (2)
The creation and critique of a Central African myth (1998) (2)
Review of The primitive city of Timbuctoo, by Horace Miner (1967) (2)
Verb-marking in Sango predicate chains (1994) (1)
Explaining shift to Sango in Bangui (2001) (1)
The Social Meaning of Language , by J[ohn] B. Pride. (Language and Language Learning, 29.) London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. 124. Paper and clothbound editions. (1973) (1)
Children Crafting Creolized Sango (1992) (1)
Review of The Sango language and its lexicon (Sêndâ-yângâ tî sängö), by Christina Thornell (1999) (1)
Review of Handling Unsophisticated Linguistic Informants, by Alan Healey (1967) (1)
Semantics without native intuition (1974) (1)
Review of Studying and describing unwritten languages, by Luc Bouquiaux and Jacqueline M. C. Thomas (1991) (1)
Religion and Modernization in Africa (1966) (1)
Making Wawa: The genesis of Chinook Jargon . By George Lang (2009) (1)
Modernization in Sango (1983) (1)
The Phonology of Pidgin Sango (1958) (1)
The etymology of mbunzú for ‘White-man’ in Sango: Central African history (2017) (1)
Reply to Hawkins (1960) (1)
Studies in Cameroonian and Zairean Languages (1994) (1)
A two-way dictionary of Bangala and Bwa (Bantu languages of the DRC), and English (1975) (1)
A different view of Sango (2008) (1)
Damned in-laws and other problems (1988) (1)
Studies in Portuguese and creole (with special reference to South Africa): Marius F. Valkhoff, Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg 1966. 282 pp. (1968) (0)
Social dialects in American society (1969) (0)
Creating a "Tribe" of Workers: The Bangala (2019) (0)
Convergence and the retention of marked consonants in Sango (2008) (0)
Review of Tone Languages, by Kenneth L. Pike (1951) (0)
Workers on the Rivers (2019) (0)
Review: The Silent Language (1962) (0)
Review: Language and Religious Language: A Study in the Dynamics of a Translation (1962) (0)
Review of Xenoglossy: a review and report of a case, by Ian Stevenson (1976) (0)
Handling Unsophisticated Linguistic Informants. Alan Healey (1967) (0)
The Urbanization and Creolization of Bangui (1995) (0)
Review of A phonetic study of West African languages, by Peter Ladefoged (1964) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: Learning a Field Language. Robbins Burling (1986) (0)
Not Excluding Women (2019) (0)
Questions and Orthography in Sango (1963) (0)
The economics and politics of literacy in Sango (1992) (0)
An incipient ethnic model for urban Sango (1991) (0)
The functions of glossolalic discourse (1976) (0)
Why Not the Best (1978) (0)
COMPLEMENT à ajouter à l'article de Williams J. SAMARIN A different view of Sango , paru dans le volume 78 1-2: 295-303 (2009) (0)
Linguistics: Papers in Pidgin and Creole Linguistics No. 2. P. Mühlhäusler (1982) (0)
Review of Sranan Syntax, by Jan Voorhoeve (1964) (0)
French Missions (2019) (0)
Basic course in Sango Volume 2: Readings in Sango (1967) (0)
Questionaire on attitudes and usage of Sango (1996) (0)
The Art of Speaking in Tongues (2003) (0)
The Ideology of Work and Colonization (2019) (0)
Map of Central Africa (image) (1964) (0)
Review of Sociolinguistique urbaine: la vie des langues à Ziguinchor (Sénégal), by Caroline Juillard (1998) (0)
Sociolinguistics as I see it (2000) (0)
Social milieu in pidginization, creolization, and language change (1992) (0)
Indenturing Slaves (2019) (0)
Gods, prophets, and subjective consciousness'1' (2014) (0)
Secularism Is Not Inevitable [Abstract] (1964) (0)
'La politique indigène' in the history of Bangui (1992) (0)
Review of Bilingualism or not: the education of minorities, by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1985) (0)
The sociolinguistic reading of Biblical reading (2014) (0)
Pidgins and Sango (1995) (0)
Johannes Fabian, Jamaa: a charismatic movement in Katanga . Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 284. (1972) (0)
Review of Le verbe en gbaya, by Paulette Roulon (1978) (0)
Review of Language and religious language, by Jules L. Moreau (1962) (0)
Review of Townsmen or tribesmen: Urbanization in a divided society, by Philip Mayer (1968) (0)
Response to Social dialects from a linguistic perspective, by Walt Wolfram (1971) (0)
Priorities for research in sociolinguistics in Africa (1966) (0)
Protestant Missions (2019) (0)
Carol Myers-Scotton. Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa . In the series Oxford Studies in Language Contact . Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993. Pp. 177. $54.00 (hardcover). (1995) (0)
The Social Significance of Speech: an Introduction to and Workbook in Sociolinguistics, by John T. Platt and Heidi K. Piatt. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company; New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1975. Pp. 194. (1978) (0)
Sango serving the Central African Republic (1962) (0)
Gods, prophets, and subjective conciousness (1981) (0)
Cross-cultural perspectives on language contact (1977) (0)
3. Simplification, pidginization and language change (1979) (0)
Sentence-repetition tests in determining competence in the spread of Pidgin Sango (2003) (0)
Interview with Carey Ann Strelecki on "Strange Science: Strange Sounds" (1998) (0)
Langauge, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (1994) (0)
An Analytical Review of Bruce A. Rosenberg's 'The Art of the American Folk Preacher' (1972) (0)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Speech play: research and resources for studying linguistic creativity . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976. pp. 307. (1978) (0)
The Plural in Grammar and in Discourse (1994) (0)
Starting with West Africans (2019) (0)
Controlling Elicitation of Equivalents (1965) (0)
Review of The complete Enochian dictionary: A dictionary of the angelic language as revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley, by Donald C. Laycock (1981) (0)
Religious Motives in Religious Movements (1973) (0)
Review: Anthropological Readers and Source Books: The Gospel Blimp (1961) (0)
Anna Trosborg. Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints and Apologies. In the series Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 7. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1994. Pp. xxv + 581. DM 248,- (hardcover). (1996) (0)
A Caution on Greek Connectives (1951) (0)
PROTESTANT MISSIONS AND THE HISTORY (2016) (0)
LINGUISTICS: A Descriptive Grammar of Igbo. M. M. GREEN and G. E. IGWE (1965) (0)
Occupying with Soldier-Workers: The Belgian Militia (2019) (0)
Changes in linguistic fieldwork (1978) (0)
READINGS IN SANGO, PHASE 1--PREPARATION OF THE SANGO TEXTS, PART 1. (1965) (0)
Review of Dictionnaire Sango-Français, by Luc Bouquiaux (1980) (0)
Review of Beyond the Mountains of the Moon: the lives of four Africans, by Edward H. Winter (1967) (0)
Belgian Missions (2019) (0)
Basic course in Sango Volume 1: Lessons in Sango (1967) (0)
Suffixation from phonological change in creolized Sango (1992) (0)
Tribalism, Linguae Francae and the Emerging States (1961) (0)
A. Schweizer, Problems in the sociology of language in contemporary American linguistics . Leningrad, 1971. (1975) (0)
13. The Language of Religion (1987) (0)
Slaves and interpreters in the origin of Pidgin Portuguese (2014) (0)
(35) Secularism Is Not Inevitable (1964) (0)
Review of The art of the American folk preacher, by Bruce A. Rosenberg (1972) (0)
Review: Townsmen or Tribesmen. Conservatism and the Process of Urbanization in a South African City (1968) (0)
Small house (image) (1964) (0)
Ngaragé, a Gbeya society (1959) (0)
Review of French pulpit oratory, 1598–1650: A study in themes and styles, with a descriptive catalogue of printed texts, by Peter Bayley (1981) (0)
Sacred and Profane + Response (1972) (0)
Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. By Jack K. Chambers (1997) (0)
Peter Bayley, French pulpit oratory, 1598–1650: A study in themes and styles, with a descriptive catalogue of printed texts . Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 323. (1981) (0)
Maksim Gavrilovich Rudomyotkin, Molokan Messianic King (2016) (0)
Review of The silent language, by Edward T. Hall (1962) (0)
Morphophonemic 'Complication' in Creolization (1993) (0)
Review: Religion in a Tswana Chiefdom (1968) (0)
THE LINGUISTICALITY 1 OF GLOSSOLALIA (2015) (0)
Languages in contact: Bibliography (1988) (0)
Workers in Porterage (2019) (0)
LESSONS IN SANGO. VOLUME I, BASIC COURSE IN SANGO. (1967) (0)
Stereotyped Perceptions of Speech Tempo (1993) (0)
A Very Small Piece in an Ethnographic Mosaic (1968) (0)
Book review (1973) (0)
Reviews N. Dittmar Sociolinguistics. A critical survey of theory and application. Trans-lated from the German by Peter Sand, Pieter A. M. Seuren and Keven Whiteley. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. Pp. x + 307. (1979) (0)
Terms of reference for the study of glossolalia (1980) (0)
Religious ends and language resources (2014) (0)
French loanwords in children's Sango (1991) (0)
Review of Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance, by Jack Chambers (1997) (0)
Reviews (2004) (0)

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