Bettina Migge
Biographic Data
| ID | 734704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettina Migge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettina |
| FAMILY NAME | Migge |
| SIGNATURE | MIGGE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3305-7113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sociolinguists against the AI hype? AI tools in sociolinguistics scholarship
This paper examines sociolinguists’ views of and engagement with artificial intelligence technology in sociolinguistics scholarship, an area that has received little systematic attention to date. Drawing on a global survey of 274 respondents, the study reveals that while automatization and AI tools are mainly used for efficiency and experimentation purposes, their adoption for data collection and analysis remains limited. Moreover, sociolinguists…
AI technology as human interaction: Linguistic and cultural framings of AI as communicative infrastructure
The material making of language as practice of global domination and control: Continuations from European colonialism to AI
Although AI language technologies are typically presented as future-oriented technological innovation, none of the elements of machine learning technologies are unaffected by the cultural and historical contexts of their emergence. This is particularly true in the case of language constructions and the materialization of language in AI. Examination of computational language culture reveals striking continuities to concepts of language and their m…
Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages
Large language models based on machine-learning technologies are reshaping linguistic contexts and understandings of language. We explore these reconfigurations by investigating discursive positionings of traditional institutional guardians of power in language in response to these changes. Focusing on the discourse of the Real Academia Española (RAE), we show how RAE's social functions, ways of asserting authority, and the nature, function, and …
Language is not a data set-Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI
Indexing whiteness: Practices of categorization and racialization of social relations among Maroons in French Guiana
This article investigates racial/ethnic categorizations designating the majority in a minority language and their uses and meanings in everyday interactions to grasp the dynamics of racialization from the perspective of minoritized people. The investigation focuses on the varieties of the language called Businenge(e) Tongo locally or Eastern Maroon Creoles spoken by Maroon populations living in French Guiana and Suriname. We first examine the dif…
Assessing the place of minoritized languages in postcolonial contexts using the Linguistic Landscape: The role of ethnographic information
Linguistic Landscape research has demonstrated that detailed analysis of written signage provides, often simultaneously, important insights into various aspects of the sociolinguistic dynamics of a context, particularly those involving minoritized languages. Comparatively little of that research has, however, focused on postcolonial contexts in which people make little use of literacy and in which locally widely used minoritized languages co-exis…
Linguistic research with language users: Opportunities and challenges
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Language styles, styling and language change in Creole communities
In my last column, I want to come back to another topic that is dear to my heart, the stylistic repertoire of Creoles, which, in my view, has received far too little attention despite its potential importance for a more holistic understanding of the nature of Creoles and language change. Styles and style shifting in Creoles have mostly been investigated to provide evidence against Bickerton (1975) and DeCamp’s (1971) notion of the Post-Creole con…
The Creole Debate, written by John H. McWhorter
International audience
Mediating Creoles: Language practices on a YouTube show
International audience
Broadening creole studies: From grammar towards discourse
International audience
Dire la blancheur chez les Businenge en Guyane. Pratiques de catégorisation et racialisation des rapports sociaux
Cet article vise à analyser des catégorisations de la majorité raciale dans une langue minoritaire, afin de saisir ces dynamiques de racialisation depuis la perspective de personnes minorisées. Il s’agit de catégories utilisées en Guyane par des personnes businenge – des Marrons –, locuteurs des variétés de nenge.Nous étudions ainsi les désignations renvoyant à la blancheur, comme bakaa, weti et poyte, dans une perspective historique, à partir de…
Pidginization and creolization
International audience
Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles. By Jacques Arends
International audience
Language and identity construction on the French Guiana-Suriname border
On the French Guiana-Suriname border, a hybrid space, members of the same population groups engage in circular mobility but little is known about the practices of these transnational communities. We explore how traditional emic social distinctions, modern states’ language ideologies and emerging discourses in the urban context shape Maroon’s practices and identities in the border zone. A survey of language repertoires and long-term ethnographic f…
Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital ‘Yaad’. By Andrea Moll
International audience
Pour une étude des contacts de langues en synchronie. Quelques exemples tirés du terrain guyanais
La recherche sur le contact de langues (ou contact linguistics) est longtemps restée à la périphérie des études linguistiques qui s'intéressaient principalement à la compétence et à la grammaire monolingue des sujets parlants poussées en cela par des idéologies nationales qui reconnaissaient sur leur territoire l'existence de langues et de cultures séparées dans lesquelles des systèmes linguistiques indépendants n'avaient aucune influence les uns…
Putting Matawai on the Surinamese linguistic map
The creoles associated with Suriname have figured prominently in research on creole languages. However, one variety, Matawai, has, to date, remained completely unresearched. This paper attempts to address this lacuna. It discusses its history and selected areas of grammar in order to assess the place of Matawai among its sister languages and its development. The linguistic analysis draws on recordings from 2013 and the 1970s. The paper provides e…
Support, transmission, education and target varieties in the Celtic languages: An overview
When we talk of the modern Celtic languages today we refer to the Insular Celtic varieties that have maintained (or indeed regained) a degree of their linguistic vitality and that are practised, to varying extents and in various forms, by users of the Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh languages. Further to their common linguistic derivation, the Celtic languages share a number of additional characteristics that lend themselv…
Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, edited by Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith
Language Education in the Caribbean: Selected Articles by Dennis CraigEducation Issues in Creole and Creole-Influenced Vernacular Contexts, edited by Jeannette Allsopp & Zellynne JenningsIan Robertson…
Language Education in the Caribbean opens with a preface highlighting Craig’s proactive social engagement through a discussion of his popular Viewpoint columns written for the Guyana Broadcasting Company and an introduction outlining the main concerns of his academic publications. It then reprints four of his articles dealing with the socio-linguistic context of the English-official Caribbean and four focusing on effective teaching and learning p…
In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity
Migrant mothers and the geographies of belonging
Much academic research on migrant mothers focuses on mothers who are separated from their children, often through their integration into global care chains, or on mothers within the context of family migration. This paper argues that co-resident migrant mothers' experiences provide an important window on the complexities of the migration experience. Using a specific case study of Ireland, and drawing from a broader longitudinal research project t…
Home stories: Immigrant narratives of place and identity in contemporary Ireland
This paper discusses immigrant identity and place in contemporary Ireland. It draws from a longitudinal research project that involved recent immigrants to Ireland. Participants in the project came from 18 different countries, and ranged in age from 22 to 68. Their reasons for moving to Ireland were varied, and included work, adventure, and personal relationships. Combining insights from sociolinguistics and human geography, the paper first consi…
European migrants in Ireland: Pathways to integration
Within the EU, efforts in relation to integration are generally directed towards migrants from outside the EU. However, there is evidence that intra-EU migrants face similar obstacles to integration to those of non-EU citizens. Since Ireland has a large EU migrant population, this paper critically explores EU migrants’ integration in Ireland. Drawing on awider longitudinal study, the paper focuses on the lived experiences of 39 migrants from EU M…
Migrant mothers and the geographies of belonging
Much academic research on migrant mothers focuses on mothers who are separated from their children, often through their integration into global care chains, or on mothers within the context of family migration. This paper argues that co-resident migrant mothers' experiences provide an important window on the complexities of the migration experience. Using a specific case study of Ireland, and drawing from a broader longitudinal research project t…
Migrants and healthcare: Investigating patient mobility among migrants in Ireland
Home stories: Immigrant narratives of place and identity in contemporary Ireland
This paper discusses immigrant identity and place in contemporary Ireland. It draws from a longitudinal research project that involved recent immigrants to Ireland. Participants in the project came from 18 different countries, and ranged in age from 22 to 68. Their reasons for moving to Ireland were varied, and included work, adventure, and personal relationships. Combining insights from sociolinguistics and human geography, the paper first consi…
Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence
In research on Creoles, historical written texts have in recent decades been fruitfully employed to shed light on the diachronic development of these languages and the nature of Creole genesis.They have so far been much less frequently used to derive social information about these communities and to improve our understanding of the sociolinguistics and stylistic structure of these languages.This paper surveys linguistic research on early written …
Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles
The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of the creoles of Suriname. The study draws on a rich corpus of a) natural conversational and elici…
Code-switching and social identities in the Eastern Maroon community of Suriname and French Guiana1
Sociolinguistic research on Creole communities has so far focused mainly on the social and linguistic distinctiveness of Creoles and on their synchronic interaction with their European lexifier. To date, little work has been done on the stylistic make-up of Creoles and on how these styles are employed in interactions to negotiate social identities and relationships. This paper investigates patterns of code-switching between different Creole varie…
Language-naming practices, ideologies, and linguistic practices: Toward a comprehensive description of language varieties
Although it is well accepted that linguistic naming conventions provide valuable insights into the social and linguistic perceptions of people, this topic has not received much attention in sociolinguistics. Studies focus on the etymology of names, details about the social and historical circumstances of their emergence, and their users, and sometimes make recommendations about the appropriateness of terms. This article departs from this traditio…
Language is not a data set-Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI
Assessing the sociolinguistic situation of the Maroon creoles
Recent anthropological and socio-historical research on Maroon populations suggests that Maroon communities have undergone significant social change since the 1960s spurred by processes of urbanization. However, to date very little is known about how these social changes are impacting on the Maroon Creoles as there is very little sociolinguistic research being carried out in the region. The aim of this paper is to examine the sociolinguistic cont…
Language and identity construction on the French Guiana-Suriname border
On the French Guiana-Suriname border, a hybrid space, members of the same population groups engage in circular mobility but little is known about the practices of these transnational communities. We explore how traditional emic social distinctions, modern states’ language ideologies and emerging discourses in the urban context shape Maroon’s practices and identities in the border zone. A survey of language repertoires and long-term ethnographic f…
Dire la blancheur chez les Businenge en Guyane. Pratiques de catégorisation et racialisation des rapports sociaux
Cet article vise à analyser des catégorisations de la majorité raciale dans une langue minoritaire, afin de saisir ces dynamiques de racialisation depuis la perspective de personnes minorisées. Il s’agit de catégories utilisées en Guyane par des personnes businenge – des Marrons –, locuteurs des variétés de nenge.Nous étudions ainsi les désignations renvoyant à la blancheur, comme bakaa, weti et poyte, dans une perspective historique, à partir de…
Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages
Large language models based on machine-learning technologies are reshaping linguistic contexts and understandings of language. We explore these reconfigurations by investigating discursive positionings of traditional institutional guardians of power in language in response to these changes. Focusing on the discourse of the Real Academia Española (RAE), we show how RAE's social functions, ways of asserting authority, and the nature, function, and …
Support, transmission, education and target varieties in the Celtic languages: An overview
When we talk of the modern Celtic languages today we refer to the Insular Celtic varieties that have maintained (or indeed regained) a degree of their linguistic vitality and that are practised, to varying extents and in various forms, by users of the Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh languages. Further to their common linguistic derivation, the Celtic languages share a number of additional characteristics that lend themselv…
In and Out of Suriname
Language in Suriname is a vigorous obsession and has been an emotive topic since colonisation by the Dutch.Today, Dutch continues to be the sole officially recognised and promoted language while the vast majority of the population speaks any number of the other 20 or more languages found in Suriname, though not necessarily including Dutch.Popular and official discourse on language, in the main, revolve around language ideologies that are steeped …
Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname
Negotiating social identities on an Eastern Maroon radio show
Fact-type complements in Gbe and the Surinamese Creoles
Les Marrons By Sally Price and Richard Price. Chateauneuf‐le‐Rouge, France: Vents d'Ailleurs, 2003
Les Marrons By Sally PriceRichard Price.Chateauneuf-le-Rouge, France: Vents d'Ailleurs, 2003
Substrate influence in creole formation: The origin of give -type serial verb constructions in the Surinamese Plantation Creole
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Eastern Maroon Creole. Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname
1.Introduction 2. Gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole (EMC) 2.1 Personal nouns with lexical gender: Kinship terms 2.2 Address forms 2.3 Formation of gender-marked personal nouns from non-personal words 2.4. Formation of gender-marked nouns from personal nouns 3. The interpretation of personal nouns in discourse 3.1 Gender-unmarked personal nouns 3.2 Words overtly marked as ‘male’ 3.3 Words overtly marked as ‘female’ 4. Conclusion Notes References
The origin of the copulas (d/n)a and de in the Eastern Maroon Creole
It is generally assumed that the copulas ( d / n ) a and de in the creoles of Suriname emerged due to processes of reanalysis and grammaticalization from that and there , respectively. While Arends (1989) argued that these processes were triggered and guided by substrate influence, McWhorter (1997a) explicitly excludes such influence. Neither of the two studies is conclusive, however, since they did not examine in sufficient detail relevant data …
Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles
The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of the creoles of Suriname. The study draws on a rich corpus of a) natural conversational and elici…
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists’ current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages.…
Politeness and face in caribbean creoles
Greeting and social change
This paper discusses greeting routines in the Eastern Maroon community of Suriname and\nFrench Guiana. The paper argues that there are two broad sets of greeting routines. They have\ndifferent origins, linguistic structures and distinct social meanings (e.g. setting, social groups,\nsocial relationship). As a result of social changes in the community, their social distribution,\nfrequency and their social meanings are currently changing. The ‘urb…
Les Marrons By Sally Price and Richard Price. Chateauneuf‐le‐Rouge, France: Vents d'Ailleurs, 2003
Les Marrons By Sally PriceRichard Price.Chateauneuf-le-Rouge, France: Vents d'Ailleurs, 2003
Language-naming practices, ideologies, and linguistic practices: Toward a comprehensive description of language varieties
Although it is well accepted that linguistic naming conventions provide valuable insights into the social and linguistic perceptions of people, this topic has not received much attention in sociolinguistics. Studies focus on the etymology of names, details about the social and historical circumstances of their emergence, and their users, and sometimes make recommendations about the appropriateness of terms. This article departs from this traditio…
Substrate influence on the emergence of the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles
Although the Surinamese Creoles have figured prominently in discussions about Creole genesis, little is still known about the origin of their TMA system, a central area of grammar that has received much attention in this debate. In this paper we assess the relative contribution of the primary substrate input, varieties of Gbe, to the TMA system. Drawing on both contemporary data from several Surinamese Creoles and varieties of Gbe, and historical…
Code-switching and social identities in the Eastern Maroon community of Suriname and French Guiana1
Sociolinguistic research on Creole communities has so far focused mainly on the social and linguistic distinctiveness of Creoles and on their synchronic interaction with their European lexifier. To date, little work has been done on the stylistic make-up of Creoles and on how these styles are employed in interactions to negotiate social identities and relationships. This paper investigates patterns of code-switching between different Creole varie…
Roots of Creole structures: Weighing the Contribution of Substrates and Superstrates
Pratiques et représentations linguistiques en Guyane: Regards croisés
La Guyane française, avec sa grande richesse culturelle et linguistique, offre un observatoire privilégié pour l'étude des relations entre langue et société. On y parle en effet une trentaine de langues d'origines multiples : langues créoles, amérindiennes, asiatiques, européennes. Des populations aux histoires diverses participent aux processus de migrations et d'urbanisation, se trouvant ainsi confrontées aux langues et cultures dominantes de l…
Earlier Caribbean English and Creole in writing
In research on Creoles, historical written texts have in recent decades been fruitfully employed to shed light on the diachronic development of these languages and the nature of Creole genesis. They have so far been much less frequently used to derive social information about these communities and to improve our understanding of the sociolinguistics and stylistic structure of these languages. This paper surveys linguistic research on early writte…
Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects
This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideological context of projects, policy developments and project implementation, development and evaluation. It compares different kinds of educational activities focusing on Creoles and discusses a list …
Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence
In research on Creoles, historical written texts have in recent decades been fruitfully employed to shed light on the diachronic development of these languages and the nature of Creole genesis.They have so far been much less frequently used to derive social information about these communities and to improve our understanding of the sociolinguistics and stylistic structure of these languages.This paper surveys linguistic research on early written …
Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue, expand, and update the d…
Migrants and healthcare: Investigating patient mobility among migrants in Ireland
Negotiating social identities on an Eastern Maroon radio show
Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context: Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation
Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological linguistic, discourse analytical and quantitative sociolinguistic approaches can be integrated with structural approaches to language in ord…
Fact-type complements in Gbe and the Surinamese Creoles
The role of Dutch in language practices in the Dutch-speaking periphery: The impact of Dutch on the Eastern Maroon Creoles
Veel van het onderzoek naar de creoolse talen van Suriname heeft zich toegespitst op de oorsprong en de ontwikkeling van deze talen. Dit onderzoek heeft hierbij voornamelijk aandacht geschonken aan de rol van de Afrikaanse talen die door de slavenbevolking gesproken werden. Er is ook wat aandacht geschonken aan de oorsprong van de Europese component, in het bijzonder van de Engelse en Portugese elementen (Smith 1987). Daartegenover weten we relat…
European migrants in Ireland: Pathways to integration
Within the EU, efforts in relation to integration are generally directed towards migrants from outside the EU. However, there is evidence that intra-EU migrants face similar obstacles to integration to those of non-EU citizens. Since Ireland has a large EU migrant population, this paper critically explores EU migrants’ integration in Ireland. Drawing on awider longitudinal study, the paper focuses on the lived experiences of 39 migrants from EU M…
Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname
In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity
Linguistics (33 works) · Philosophy (27 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Creole language (17 works) · History (16 works) · Migration, Identity, and Health (15 works) · Art (14 works)