Social milieu in pidginization, creolization, and language change

Pidgins and Creoles, once denigrated by native speakers of world languages and even held in low esteem by some of their speakers, have been given their rightful place among all those languages studied by linguists. Now taken seriously as authentic and legitimate means of communication by millions of human beings throughout the world, they have been studied as any language might be. But since they have arisen in special circumstances of language contact, not being passed on like natural languages from speakers of one generation to the next, they have been of particular interest to those concerned with the origin of language, the characteristics of linguistic 'models' human beings might be born with, and other matters of a theoretical nature