Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- General Studies -- The Language Situation in the New Guinea Area -- The Language Situation in the New Hebrides -- Remarks on the Language Situation in the Solomon Islands -- Some English-based Pidgins in the Southwestern Pacific -- Ethnography of Speaking -- Multilingualism: Linguistic Boundaries and Unsolved Problems in Papua New Guinea -- Lexical Expansion in a Non-Austronesian Language of Papua New Guinea -- The Sociolinguistic Significance of Barai Possessive Markers -- Development of a Literary Mode in the Languages of Nonliterary Communities -- Code Switching in Papua New Guinea : Local Languages Versus New Guinea Pidgin, Hiri Motu and English -- Turning the Talk: A Case of Chain-Interpreting in Papua New Guinea -- Lingue Franche in Papua New Guinea -- Papuan Pidgin English and Hiri Motu -- Sociolects in New Guinea Pidgin -- Attitudes towards New Guinea Pidgin and English -- Language Planning and New Guinea Pidgin -- Some Mission Lingue Franche and their Sociolinguistic Role