List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Context, Content, Structure Jacqueline Knörr and Wilson Trajano Filho 2 Creolization and Pidginization as Concepts of Language, Culture and Identity Jacqueline Knörr Part 2: Situating Creole Languages in Society 3 Lingua Franca Onset in a Superdiverse Neighbourhood: Oecumenical Dutch in Antwerp Jan Blommaert 4 Language and Ethnic Hierarchy in Mauritius Thomas Hylland Eriksen 5 The Shades of Legitimacy of Solomon Islands Pijin Christine Jourdan 6 Saamaka Language, Ethnicity, and Identity: Suriname and Guyane Richard Price and Sally Price 7 Swahili Creolization and Postcolonial Identity in East Africa Francis Nesbitt 8 Chronicle of a Creole: The Ironic History of Afrikaans Mariana Kriel 9 Creole Language and Identity in Guinea-Bissau: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives Christoph Kohl Part 3: Ideology and Meaning in Creole Language Usages 10 Multiple Choice: Language Use and Cultural Practice in Rural Casamance between Convergence and Divergence Friederike Lüpke 11 Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion Related to a Creole Language: 'Krio' as an Ambivalent Semiotic Register in Present-Day Sierra Leone Anaïs Ménard 12 Krio Identity and Violence: Language Ideologies of Political Disloyalty in the Sierra Leonean Civil War William P. Murphy 13 Indexing Alterity: The Performance of Language in Processes of Social Differentiation in Postwar Liberia Maarten Bedert 14 Bambinos and kassu bodi: Comments on Linguistic Appropriations on Cape Verde Islands Andréa de Souza Lobo Part 4: Creolization and Pidginization in Popular Culture 15 Language and Music in Cape Verde: Processes of Identification and Differentiation Juliana Braz Dias 16 Between Purity and Creolization: Representations of Race, Culture and Language in the New South Africa Kees van der Waal 17 Influence and Borrowing: Reflections on Decreolization and Pidginization of Cultures and Societies Wilson Trajano Filho 18 Cameroon Pidgin as Index of Speakers' Social Statuses and Roles: Evidence from Literary Texts Eric A. Anchimbe 19 From Cultural to Literary Pidginization Kristian Van Haesendonck Index.