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When Creole and Spanish Collide: Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean: 39 (Caribbean Series, 39) - Hardcover

Glenda-Alicia Leung; Miki Loschky

 
9789004460133: When Creole and Spanish Collide: Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean: 39 (Caribbean Series, 39)

Synopsis

When Creoles and Spanish Collide: Language and Culture in the Caribbean presents a contemporary look on how Creole English communities in Central America grapple with evolving Creole identity and representation, language contact with Spanish, language endangerment, discrimination, and linguistic creativity.

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About the Author

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 “YouTube Comments as Metalanguage Data on Non-standardized Languages” 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 “From schema-based information to situation models: How can we bridge theories of comprehension and practice?” (2015).

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