xiii Przedmowa, czyli o istocie i konieczności prowadzenia badań kreolingwistycznych The reasons for the persistence and vitality of contact languages are manifold: they mark our common contact identity as human beings; they are the symbol of cultural changes, language shifts, language disintegrations and revitalizations; they retain the associations of warmth and closeness for the many contact language users who first learned them from their mothers and fathers and other family members; they express camaraderie and solidarity among friends; they establish rapport among contact language users; and they serve as a creative and expressive instrument in the present and as a vibrant link with the past. (Rickford, Rickford 2000: 10) Professor John R. Rickford (Stanford University, USA) References Rickford, John R. (1988) “Connections between Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies.” [In:] International Journal of the Sociology of Language 71; 51–58. Rickford, John R., Russell J. Rickford (2000) Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English. New York, NY: John Wiley.
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