Tropical Tongues

Tropical Tongues
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Publisher : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Study of the Americas
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ISBN-10 : 1469641399
ISBN-13 : 9781469641393
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Book Synopsis Tropical Tongues by : Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar

Download or read book Tropical Tongues written by Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and published by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Study of the Americas. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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, Gâomez Menjâivar 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" --


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