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Title

Liquid languages : constructing languages in late modern cultures of diffusion

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  • Text
  • Monograph

Contribution

Subject

  • Languages in contact--Belize (LCSH)
  • Multilingualism--Social aspects--Belize (LCSH)
  • Group identity--Belize (LCSH)
  • Sociolinguistics--Belize (LCSH)
  • English language--Social aspects--Belize (LCSH)

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Content

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Summary

"Focusing on the multilingual Caribbean, this book examines ethnographic data and local performances of English to explore how language is constructed in discourse and via media practices. It is ideal reading for scholars of language contact, the sociolinguistics of globalisation, language ideology research, and African and Caribbean Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Liquid languages: studying languages under conditions of complexity -- Constructing languages, constructing social life: linguistic anthropological, sociolinguistic, and posthumanist perspectives on languages as discourse constructs -- Language ideologies and the Creole context -- Insights into language ideologies: methodological steps and analytical approaches -- A diverse Caribbean island: historical, social, and linguistic perspectives on a Belizean village -- Language ideologies of belonging -- Language ideologies of prestige -- Material language culture between ideologies of fixity and resistance -- Public English: syntactical, phonetic, and prosodic variation in a formal genre -- Liquid languages - languages as socio-material processes in a polycentric world.

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Liquid languages : constructing languages in late modern cultures of diffusion

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T21:50:04.086400+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24051940

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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