Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-77f85d65b8-jkvpf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-04-17T13:17:24.827Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Contents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2025

Britta Schneider
Britta Schneider
Affiliation:
European University Viadrina

Information

Type
Chapter
Information
Liquid Languages
Constructing Languages in Late Modern Cultures of Diffusion
 , pp. vii - ix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

Contents

  1. List of Figures and Tables

  2. Series Editor’s Foreword

  3. Acknowledgements

  4. A Note on Transcription Conventions

  5. 1Liquid Languages: Studying Languages under Conditions of Complexity

  6. Part ITheoretical Background and Setting

    1. 2Constructing Languages, Constructing Social Life: Linguistic Anthropological, Sociolinguistic, and Posthumanist Perspectives on Languages as Discourse Constructs

      1. 2.1Deconstructing and Reconstructing Languages

      2. 2.2The Role of Social Meaning in Sociolinguistics

      3. 2.3Language Ideologies and Social Indexicalities of Language

      4. 2.4Indexicalities of Standard Languages and Post-National Prestige

      5. 2.5Material Culture and the Material Construction of Languages

    2. 3Language Ideologies and the Creole Context

      1. 3.1Constructing Languages in Creole Linguistics

      2. 3.2Constructing Languages in Creole-Speaking Societies

      3. 3.3Language in Belize

    3. 4Insights into Language Ideologies: Methodological Steps and Analytical Approaches

      1. 4.1Ethnographic Language Ideology Research

        1. 4.1.1Data Collection

        2. 4.1.2Ethnographic Methodology

        3. 4.1.3Interviews

        4. 4.1.4Quantitative Data on Language Use across Domains

        5. 4.1.5Reflections on the Social Position of the Researcher

        6. 4.1.6Ethics

      2. 4.2Analytical Steps: From Data to Theory

        1. 4.2.1Transcriptions

        2. 4.2.2Data Coding and Grounded Theory

      3. 4.3Linguistic Analyses of Local Public English

    4. 5A Diverse Caribbean Island: Historical, Social, and Linguistic Perspectives on a Belizean Village

      1. 5.1Belize: History and Sociolinguistic Economy

        1. 5.1.1Sociohistorical Background

        2. 5.1.2The Sociolinguistic Economy of Belize

      2. 5.2Island Life: From Spanish–Yucatec Bilingualism to Superdiverse Multilingualism

        1. 5.2.1Local Linguistic History

        2. 5.2.2Spatial Arrangements

        3. 5.2.3Social Categorisation, Social Diffusion

  7. PART IIConstructing Languages through Discourses on Belonging, Prestige, and Materiality: Language Ideologies in a Multilingual Belizean Village

    1. 6Language Ideologies of Belonging

      1. 6.1Approaching the Island: Linguistic Landscapes and the Tourist Gaze

      2. 6.2Constructing National and Local Belonging through Kriol

      3. 6.3Kriol’s Racial and Transnational Indexicalities

      4. 6.4Constructing Non-Belonging: Spanish as a Threat

      5. 6.5Spanish as Home Language

      6. 6.6English as a Foreign Language

      7. 6.7English as Belizean

    2. 7Language Ideologies of Prestige

      1. 7.1English as a Globally Prestigious and Foreign Language

      2. 7.2Kriol’s Polycentric Prestige

        1. 7.2.1Kriol as Language of the Anglophone National Elite

        2. 7.2.2Kriol as an Index of Anti-Standard Culture and Resistance

      3. 7.3Practices of Fusion and Performing Language Boundaries

    3. 8Material Language Culture between Ideologies of Fixity and Resistance

      1. 8.1Writing and Reading as Material Cultural Practice

      2. 8.2Language and Literacy Teaching in Practice

      3. 8.3Kriol Language Activism and Orthography Development

      4. 8.4Resisting Standardised Writing

      5. 8.5The Material Qualities of Kriol

    4. 9Public English: Syntactical, Phonetic, and Prosodic Variation in a Formal Genre

      1. 9.1Public English: Mass Media and Linguistic Landscapes

      2. 9.2Spoken Language in the Classroom

      3. 9.3Variation in a Formal Oral Genre: Language in Interviews

        1. 9.3.1Lexical and Morphosyntactic Variation in Interviews

        2. 9.3.2Variation in Phonetic Realisations of Public English

        3. 9.3.3Prosodic Variation: Marking Boundaries through Intonational Patterns

  8. PART IIITheoretical Conclusions

    1. 10Liquid Languages: Languages as Sociomaterial Processes in a Polycentric World

      1. 10.1Multiple Indexicalities in Polycentric Belize and the Inadequacy of Binary Models

      2. 10.2Linguistic Freezing as a Social Process in Contexts of Political Hegemony

      3. 10.3Different Cultures of Normativity: Overcoming Universalistic Models of Linguistic Theorising

      4. 10.4Liquid Languages in the Global South as Cultural Avant-garde

  9. References

  10. Index

Accessibility standard: Unknown

Why this information is here

This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

Accessibility Information

Accessibility compliance for the HTML of this chapter is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×