Language Ideology, Gender, and Varieties of Belizean Kriol

Salmon, William

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“…The corresponding languages of Creole, Maya (Ketchi, Mopan and Yucatecan), and Spanish comprised 87.8% of the languages spoken at home throughout Belize in the year 2000. The Creole language was born out of the movement of slaves from West Africa to the British colony of British Honduras (now Belize) where West African languages melded with English (Salmon, 2015).…”

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The economic returns to language in Belize: evidence from the 2000 census

Pisani,

Pisani

2023

Econ. y Admin.

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English is the official language of Belize used in the conduct of official government business and as the standard in public education. However, English is not the primary language spoken in Belizean households nor in the conduct of local business transactions. Belize is a polyglot nation inclusive of European-based languages, native languages, and creole languages. In this paper, we demonstrate the economic returns to language acquisition and usage in Belize using census 2000 data. Our results indicate that Belize primarily rewards the ability to communicate in English and Spanish. Other language skills are also important, such as the ability to speak German, to speak Maya and English or Spanish, and the ability to speak in combination Creole-Spanish-English. There is a severe wage penalty associated with the speaking of Maya and Garifuna. Other non-language endogenous and exogenous variables are also explored.

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The economic returns to language in Belize: evidence from the 2000 census

Pisani,

Pisani

2023

Econ. y Admin.

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“…Language ideologies differ from the concept of language attitudes in that the latter is grounded in quantitative methodologies such as questionnaires or matchedguise experiments (cf. Blake & Cutler, 2003;Salmon, 2015), whereas language ideologies research is grounded in qualitative methodologies and emphasizes how people's beliefs and feelings about language are developed, communicated, and put into action within a socioeconomic and culturalhistorical context (Kroskrity, 2018).…”

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Perceptions of Black Children's Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Study

Mills

Moore

Chang

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Purpose In this mixed-methods study, we address two aims. First, we examine the impact of language variation on the ratings of children's narrative language. Second, we identify participants' ideologies related to narrative language and language variation. Method Forty adults listened to and rated six Black second-grade children on the quality of 12 narratives (six fictional, six personal). Adults then completed a quantitative survey and participated in a qualitative interview. Results Findings indicated that adults rated students with less variation from mainstream American English (MAE) more highly than students with greater variation from MAE for fictional narratives, but not for personal narratives. Personal narratives tended to be evaluated more favorably by parents than teachers. Black raters tended to assign higher ratings of narrative quality than did White raters. Thematic analysis and conversation analysis of qualitative interviews supported quantitative findings and provided pertinent information about participants' beliefs. Conclusion Taken together, quantitative and qualitative results point to a shared language ideology among adult raters of variation from MAE being more acceptable in informal contexts, such as telling a story of personal experience, and less acceptable in more formal contexts, such as narrating a fictional story prompted by a picture sequence.

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“…No obstante, la lengua que cumple la función de lengua franca es el criollo beliceño, además de ser considerada icono de la identidad beliceña, como ya documentaron Le Page y Tabouret-Keller (1985) en su estudio fundamental Acts of Identity (cf. también Osmer 2013;Ravindranath 2009;Salmon 2015). El criollo beliceño tiene base léxica del inglés y, puesto que las lenguas criollas por lo general no gozan de prestigio no encubierto y se emplean predominantemente en registros informales y orales, el estatus de este criollo a muchos puede resultar sorprendente (veáse p. ej.…”

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Haciendo y deshaciendo la lengua – Funciones simbólicas del español en Belice: entre el predominio demográfico, la política nacional, el estatus de clase baja y el prestigio global

Schneider

2016

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En este artículo analizo el papel que desempeña el español en Belice, una nación situada en Centroamérica. Demuestro que a pesar del predominio demográfico que tiene en dicho país, el español cumple parajódicamente algunas funciones indexicales cuyo origen radica en ideologías y condiciones sociales, lingüísticas y políticas que influyen en las actitudes hacia la lengua y la elección lingüística, además de construir el español como lengua “extranjera”. El español está vinculado indexicalmente a varios grupos sociales con distinto estatus social dentro de Belice, por lo que ejerce al mismo tiempo diferentes funciones simbólicas. Pese a la extensión de la que goza el uso del español, el hecho de que existan actitudes negativas hacia la lengua conduce a que el español se encuentre parcialmente ausente del ámbito público y sea invisible a la percepción individual. Los datos que empleo para sustentar mis afirmaciones han sido recogidos en un trabajo de campo de tipo etnográfico-lingüístico realizado en un pequeño pueblo beliceño. El material observacional del estudio se complementa con anotaciones resultantes de la observación de los informantes, así como con un análisis cuantitativo de las actitudes hacia las distintas lenguas y un análisis cualitativo de las entrevistas llevadas a cabo in situ.

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Language Ideology, Gender, and Varieties of Belizean Kriol

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

The economic returns to language in Belize: evidence from the 2000 census

The economic returns to language in Belize: evidence from the 2000 census

Perceptions of Black Children's Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Study

Haciendo y deshaciendo la lengua – Funciones simbólicas del español en Belice: entre el predominio demográfico, la política nacional, el estatus de clase baja y el prestigio global

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