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When Creole and Spanish Collide
Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean
Series: - Caribbean Series, Volume: 39
Generations of West Indian migrants have long called Central America home. The descendants of these Creole English speakers live in communal enclaves along the Caribbean coast of Central America, where their Creole heritage and language are in contact zones with Spanish language and culture. When Creoles and Spanish Collide: Language and Culture in the Caribbean presents contemporary insight into these intra-Caribbean diasporic communities on how they grapple with evolving Creole identity and representation, language contact, language endangerment, and linguistic discrimination. Communal resilience oftentimes manifests itself via linguistic innovation and creativity. Editors Glenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky showcase the scholarship of emerging and established regional and transatlantic scholars in When Creoles and Spanish Collide, which serves as a decolonizing research space.
Glenda-Alicia Leung, Ph.D. (2013), University of Freiburg, is a linguist who is passionate about her professional engagement in the translation and localization industry. She has published articles on Trinidadian English/Creole, including âYouTube Comments as Metalanguage Data on Non-standardized Languagesâ in Data Analytics in Digital Humanities .
Miki Loschky, Ph.D. (2014), Kansas State University, is Instructor of Japanese at that university. Her research interest includes cognitive benefits of bilingualism and its sociolinguistic implications. She has published âFrom schema-based information to situation models: How can we bridge theories of comprehension and practice?â (2015).
Miki Loschky, Ph.D. (2014), Kansas State University, is Instructor of Japanese at that university. Her research interest includes cognitive benefits of bilingualism and its sociolinguistic implications. She has published âFrom schema-based information to situation models: How can we bridge theories of comprehension and practice?â (2015).
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Preface: When Creole and Spanish Collide
âGlenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky
1 Colombian Caribbean: Theory, Criticism and Writing
âMarcelo José Cabarcas Ortega
2 If Signs Could Talk: The Linguistic Landscape of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia
âFalcon Restrepo-Ramos
3 Language Variation, Language Ideologies, and Challenges to Language Development in the Creole-Speaking Communities of San Andrés, Providence, and the Nicaraguan Coast
âAngela Bartens
4 Lexical Transfer from Spanish into Limonese Creole
âMarva Spence Sharpe
5 Limonese Syllable Structure: Language Innovation in Creoles
âMarisol Joseph-Haynes, Camille A. Wagner RodrÃguez and Yolanda Rivera Castillo
6 âLo que hacen mix es el Kriol y el Englishâ: How Spanish Speakers Reconcile Linguistic Encounters with English and Kriol in Belize
âNicté Fuller Medina
7 Perceptions on Language, Identity and Culture by Dominicans on St. Thomas, u.s. Virgin Islands
âDaniel S. DâArpa
8 Language Attrition in Papiamentu-Jamaican Creole Contact: Revelations of the Determiner Phrase
âTrecel Messam
9 When a Paña Speaks Creole: Crossing Ethnolinguistic Boundaries
âMonique Schoch Angel
10 Afro-Panamanian Creolization
âFrancis Njubi Nesbitt
11 The Multiplex Symbolic Functions of Spanish in Multilingual Belize
âBritta Schneider
12 Samples of Linguistic Repertoires, Language Shift Patterns and Perceptions of Spanish in Bluefields, Nicaragua
âKaren López Alonzo
13 Generalmente el Criol es empezamos en inglés y terminamos en español: Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica
âAshley LaBoda
Epilogue: Sisters of the Shell
âGlenda-Alicia Leung, Felisha Maria and Rhea Ramjohn
List of Tables and Figures
Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Preface: When Creole and Spanish Collide
âGlenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky
part 1: Semiotics and Literary Imaginings in Creole Contexts
1 Colombian Caribbean: Theory, Criticism and Writing
âMarcelo José Cabarcas Ortega
2 If Signs Could Talk: The Linguistic Landscape of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia
âFalcon Restrepo-Ramos
part 2: Linguistic Clash and Consequence
3 Language Variation, Language Ideologies, and Challenges to Language Development in the Creole-Speaking Communities of San Andrés, Providence, and the Nicaraguan Coast
âAngela Bartens
4 Lexical Transfer from Spanish into Limonese Creole
âMarva Spence Sharpe
5 Limonese Syllable Structure: Language Innovation in Creoles
âMarisol Joseph-Haynes, Camille A. Wagner RodrÃguez and Yolanda Rivera Castillo
6 âLo que hacen mix es el Kriol y el Englishâ: How Spanish Speakers Reconcile Linguistic Encounters with English and Kriol in Belize
âNicté Fuller Medina
part 3: Creole Counter-Clash
7 Perceptions on Language, Identity and Culture by Dominicans on St. Thomas, u.s. Virgin Islands
âDaniel S. DâArpa
8 Language Attrition in Papiamentu-Jamaican Creole Contact: Revelations of the Determiner Phrase
âTrecel Messam
part 4: Evolving Ethnicities in the Diaspora
9 When a Paña Speaks Creole: Crossing Ethnolinguistic Boundaries
âMonique Schoch Angel
10 Afro-Panamanian Creolization
âFrancis Njubi Nesbitt
part 5: Living Linguistic Identities and Ideologies
11 The Multiplex Symbolic Functions of Spanish in Multilingual Belize
âBritta Schneider
12 Samples of Linguistic Repertoires, Language Shift Patterns and Perceptions of Spanish in Bluefields, Nicaragua
âKaren López Alonzo
13 Generalmente el Criol es empezamos en inglés y terminamos en español: Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica
âAshley LaBoda
Epilogue: Sisters of the Shell
âGlenda-Alicia Leung, Felisha Maria and Rhea Ramjohn
For those interested in the contemporary status of minority Creole English speakers in Latin America and other Caribbean territories, especially linguists, educators, cultural studies scholars, and language policy makers.