[…] I have tried […] to avoid the point of view which requires that every speech event must belong to a nameable language system. Rather, I regard it as a reflex of the total behavioural system of the person who utters it, interacting with the context in which it is uttered; each speech act is therefore the reflex of an ‘instant pidgin’, related to the linguistic 'competence' of more than one person (unless one can envisage any utterly solipsist speaker-hearer).
- Le Page (1977), a pag.222-223

In the pidgin situation […] redundancy in the code is reduced, but the necessities of the situation ensure that the participants are in a state of heightened attention to each other and to contextual clues, and psychologically willing to meet each other more than halfway in order to communicate or to commune. Each wishes to identify himself as a player in the game of ‘instant pidgin’.
- Le Page (1977), a pag.224