Tropical Tongues - Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize (Paperback)

Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize examines the precarious state of languages in coastal 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 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, Gomez Menjivar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Language endangerment studies generally focus on the loss of a minority language to a European language. Tropical Tongues presents a fresh perspective on language shift and loss by examining how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Latin America
Release date:	2018
Authors:	Jennifer Carolina Gomez Menjivar • William Noel Salmon
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-4139-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4696-4139-9
Barcode:	9781469641393

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