Tropical tongues: language ideologies, endangerment, and minority languages in Belize

"In the period following the country's independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. While the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic developments has given Kriol an elevated status in the coastal distr...

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Hauptverfasser: Gómez Menjívar, Jennifer Carolina (VerfasserIn), Salmon, William Noel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [2018]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Latin America
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Zusammenfassung:"In the period following the country's independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. While the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic developments has given Kriol an elevated status in the coastal districts at the potential expense of more vulnerable minority languages also spoken there. Using fieldwork, ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys of language attitudes and use, Gómez Menjívar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Examin[es] how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages" ...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-105)
Beschreibung:xvii, 105 Seiten 3 Karten 22 cm
ISBN:9781469641393

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