Tropical tongues : language ideologies, endangerment, and minority languages in Belize / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and William Noel Salmon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez Menjívar, Jennifer Carolina, author.

Salmon, William, author.

Series:

Studies in Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Belize.

Languages in contact.

Garifuna language.

Mopan dialect.

Creole dialects, English.

Belize--Languages.

Belize.

Language and languages.

Creole dialects, English--Belize.

Mopan dialect--Belize.

Garifuna language--Belize.

Physical Description:

xvii, 105 pages ; 22 cm.

Distribution:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [2018]

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" -- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-105).

ISBN:

9781469641393

1469641399

OCLC:

1005596796

Publisher Number:

99975781200