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Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) (Updated Edition) by Professor Don Kulick, Don (Stockholms Universitet) Kulick, Judith Irvine, Bambi Schieffelin, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Joel Kuipers, John Lucy Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-521-59926-1 / 0521599261 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-59926-9 / 9780521599269 Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. He examines why the villagers of Gapun are abandoning their vernacular in favor of Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guine |