summary responses query tok masta ft new guinea almost two months ago posted following query list posting fellow student list seeks references sources socalled tok masta foreigner talk europeans new guinea probably guess involved genesis still kept apart tok pisin would especially interested get actual examples tok masta far main source containing examples article peter muelhaeusler 1981 foreigner talk tok masta new guinea international journal sociology language 28 pp 93113 get responses query eventually friend postpone project nottoo near future seems wont information add got guess might interest others august cluver cluve alpha unisa ac za writes departmental database sociology language 750 pages shows article muehlhaesler search tok masta published widely tok pisin probably refers variety publications phenomenon friend analysing occurs also kiswahili remember correctly following source may provide comparative material vitale j 1980 kisetla linguistic sociolinguistic aspects pidgin swahili kenya anthropological linguistics 22 2 4765 david ganelin ganelin netcom com got ronald wardhaugh references tok pisin tok masta _ introduction sociolinguistics _ second edition blackwell oxford england cambridge massachusetts 1992 also refers article e wolfers report neo melanesian h hymes ed _ pidginization creolization languages _ cambridge university press 1971 hope helps b robert helm bhelm cs uoregon edu writes discussion tok masta wurm p muehlhaeusler _ handbook tok pisin new guinea pidgin _ canberra c australia dept linguistics research school pacific studies australian national university 1985 jan tent tent _ j usp ac fj suggested might get help prof john lynch used professor linguistics upng linguist list send original email address lynch vanuatu usp ac fj tell gave email address might also try jeff siegel jsiegel gara une oz au hope guys able help certainly able put onto someone elisabeth gordon e gordon csc canterbury ac nz small booklet pidgin english produced last war front page says language used conversation natives asiatics german white misionaries sure want would like could photocopy send written help soldiers war booklet fragile use sociolinguistics classes show early attitudes language spoke e g general advice nt interfere village pigs would nearly bad interfering women karlcc _ franklin sil org muelhaeusler student refers wurm edited handbook tok pisin new guinea pidgin published pacific linguistics c70 1985 muelhaeusler claims p 236 tok masa fourth variety tp bush rural urban used many expatriates name given papua new guineans domestic jargon used majority expatriates dealing indigenous employees servants 241 elsewhere 286 claims tok masta seems quite recent origin tied selfawareness preceding independence worked png sil 1958 1990 studied worked pidgin think term tok masta contrasts tok boi former referring whites latter pngs used derogatory condesending sense baorchardt 1926 refers tok boi kanaka language traditionally male hence term boi tok masta mainly male expatariate females misis muelhaeusler four sociolects tp show folk classification pidgin speakers example equivalent rural pidgin tp whereas one speak urban pidgin su sok pidgin even taun pidgin generic term tok pidgin refer almost variety mead asia 31 1931 also discusses tok boi see somewhat opposite tok masta discusses mixed varieties tp tm certainly bau includes mixing tp vernacular commonly done called hap toktok says tm long time called tok vaitman pngs 467 says mid 1920 spelling suggests tok siaman german influence paul gracie keo pixi com keo sananikone sent literature review foreigner talk two years ago chapter dissertation ft malaysia impression muelhaeusler article mention one kind may resources anu could used work historical register ft png like historical pidgin english sources hawai friend would go canberra spend time digging interested tok masta article almost work ft linguistics defines foreigner role immigrant student u canada australia immigrant worker auslandischer arbeiter northern europe friend determined pursue tok masta might consider writing suzanne romaine merton college university oxford oxford ox1 4jd england peter anu directly thanks everybody responded hope use people interested matter jakob ladefoged till app 25 7 b940119 alf let uva nl university amsterdam netherlands