Tropical Tongues : Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize / / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and William Noel Salmon

• Autore: Gómez Menjívar Jennifer Carolina
• Pubblicazione: The University of North Carolina Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 105 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.44/97282
• Soggetto topico: Garifuna language - Belize; Mopan dialect - Belize; Creole dialects, English - Belize; Languages in contact - Belize
• Soggetto geografico: Belize Languages
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SalmonWilliam
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-105).
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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" --
• Titolo autorizzato: Tropical Tongues
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524866103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Latin America.