Tourism and small-language persistence in a Panamanian Creole village

Abstract

This article examines the emerging impact of international tourism on language choice and language persistence in the village of Old Bank on the Panamanian island of Bastimentos. The article employs the concept of language ideologies to account for patterns of language choice among Creole English-speaking residents of Bastimentos and tourists visiting the Western Caribbean island. Ethnographic data from spontaneous discourse are used as a means to analyze speakers' metalinguistic awareness of language choice. Analysis of speakers' awareness of language choice reveals that the status of the creole in relation to Spanish is changing and that the creole persists at least partly as a result of increased contact with varieties of English spoken by tourists.0165-2516040166-0113 6 Walter de Gruyter Int'l.

Intercultural communication in tourism

“…To illustrate, we turn to Snow's (2004) study of the impact of international tourism in the village of Old Bank, on the island of Bastimentos, Panama. It provides detailed empirical insights into the kinds of issues outlined by Cohen and Cooper (1986) within the specific historical national language context of Spanish and Panamanian Creole Englishes (PCEs).…”

Coexistências (in)visíveis entre corpos afro-caribenhos, humanos e divinos

“…Seguindo a convenção usada por minha professora do idioma local, escrevo no idioma empregando o alfabeto espanhol para reportar os sons das vogais e o alfabeto inglês para os sons das consoantes. O CIP e suas variantes foram insuficientemente documentados e analisados (SNOW, 2004), mas foram abundantemente mencionados em estudos comparativos (MUEHLEISEN;MIGGE, 2005). Aproveito aqui para chamar atenção que fiuneral não é um erro de digitação, e sim a transcrição do termo no idioma local.…”