Belizean Varieties of Spanish

Language Contact and Plurilingual Practices

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14723213
AutoresNicté Fuller Medina (University of California, Los Angeles, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen46
Fecha de publicación2020-05-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnuario de Estudios Centroamericanos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0377-7316 • E-ISSN: 2215-4175
EditorialUniversidad de Costa Rica (PUBLISHER • CR)
DOI10.15517/aeca.v46i0.42202
OpenAlexW3134494345
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas29

The current paper focusses on Spanish (de facto second official language) in contact with English (official language) and Belize Kriol (considered to be a lingua franca). These three languages are numerically the majority languages and, as a consequence, are an important axis of study for multilingualism. Previous quantitative analysis of interviews with a cohort of Spanish speakers who use all three languages in the same utterance are examined within the context of linguistic ideologies to draw insights into the Belizean semiotic landscape and the ways in which speakers enact linguistic agency. More than linguistic competency, this analysis makes evident speakers’ plurilingual competency which entails simultaneously navigating ideological norms as well as mulitple grammatical systems

Ideology · Language contact · Language ideology · Lingua franca · Linguistic landscape · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Political science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Utterance · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies