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

Title
Tropical tongues : language ideologies, endangerment, and minority languages in Belize / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and William Noel Salmon.
Author
Gómez Menjívar, Jennifer Carolina
Publication
  • Chapel Hill : Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [2018]
  • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
Salmon, William
Description
xvii, 105 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Studies in Latin America
Uniform Title
Studies in Latin America
Subject
  • Languages in contact > Belize
  • Creole dialects, English > Belize
  • Mopan dialect > Belize
  • Garifuna language > Belize
  • Creole dialects, English
  • Garifuna language
  • Language and languages
  • Languages in contact
  • Mopan dialect
  • Garifuna
  • Kreolische Sprachen
  • Minderheitensprache
  • Mopan-Sprache
  • Sprachkontakt
  • Belize > Languages
  • Belize
  • Belize
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-105).
Contents
The lush tongues of the Americas -- The languages of Belize in context -- Kriol: from minority to national language -- Mopan: between tradition and change -- Garifuna: an ethnolinguistic identity in flux -- Forces of change on language ecologies in Belize.
ISBN
  • 9781469641393
  • 1469641399
  • 9781469641416 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2017046221
  • 99976124488
  • 40027964193
OCLC
  • on1005596796
  • SCSB-9513139
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library