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Ethnolinguistic vitality in a Creole ecology : = San Andres and Providencia.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ethnolinguistic vitality in a Creole ecology :/
Reminder of title:	San Andres and Providencia.
Author:	Ramirez-Cruz, Hector.
Description:	1 online resource (392 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-07A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355410617

Ethnolinguistic vitality in a Creole ecology : = San Andres and Providencia.
Ramirez-Cruz, Hector.

Ethnolinguistic vitality in a Creole ecology :San Andres and Providencia. - 1 online resource (392 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation investigates the Ethnolinguistic Vitality (EV) of the English based Creoles spoken in San Andres and Providencia. Given that Spanish has a growing presence in these islands, this context opens the question of whether the Creoles may be threatened. The dissertation provides empirical evidence for EV, enabling a better understanding of how the Creoles, as low status languages, survive in these contexts. The study included 259 participants distributed in different subsets. A cross-sectional design was used to investigate the EV in four dimensions of analysis: (1) Objective EV, (2) Subjective EV, (3) Underlying ideologies of EV, and (4) Linguistic evidence. Standardized scales were used to assess the objective EV based on census information and archival research. A qualitative interview, a series of discussion groups, and two perception tasks were used to investigate the subjective EV and underlying ideologies. A series of speech tasks were used to collect linguistic data.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355410617Subjects--Topical Terms:

557829
Linguistics.
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Electronic books.

Ethnolinguistic vitality in a Creole ecology : = San Andres and Providencia.
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520 $a Rather than a single outcome of EV, the results on the objective EV indicate a pattern of language maintenance in Providencia and a language-shift trend in San Andres. On the subjective EV, the perceptions of vitality were consistent with the objective EV: higher in Providencia, lower in San Andres, and negative among participants who are shifting to Spanish. On underlying ideologies, the analysis discloses ideologies of ethnic authenticity regarding Creole along with its stigmatization. It shows distinctive EV modalities per island and different representation of interethnic relationships. Those who are shifting show emotional disengagement from the ethnic group and the instrumentalization of the languages. Regarding the linguistic evidence of EV, there are differences of fluency, lexical knowledge, Spanish use, and fine-grained Creole features between fluent speakers and shifters. Among fluent speakers, there are some differences per age group, with young adults using distinctive Creole markers, such as dem, deh, fi, and seh, more frequently than older adults.
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