... language. When English speaking people interact with people with different mother tongues in the trading process, a lingua franca appears and it may evolve into a new language variety called a pidgin. If the children learn the pidgin as their mother tongue, the new language becomes a creole. The Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea is a good example. The language was used first as a means of communication between the indigenous population and their European colonizers but became the most important lingua franca for Papua New Guineans. The choice of language among co-workers is affected by some factors. In some places, people choose to use English at work although it is not their mother tongue. In Macau, English is the predominant language in garment industry although it is not the native language of any participants in the trading process. According to Cremer and Willes, it is because using English in ...

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