La creación de lenguas y lectoescrituras nuevas: el criollo de San Andrés y Providencia con una mirada hacia el jamaiquino y el haitiano

Angela Bartens

doi:10.17533/udea.lyl.n79a13

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Angela Bartens University of Turku

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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n79a13

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Creole languages, San Andrés-Providence Creole English, language making, new literacies

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the idea of «language making» and new literacies in creole languages with a focus on San Andrés-Providence Creole English. Jamaican and Haitian Creole are taken as points of comparison for their more advanced state of consolidation. Posts from Facebook groups gathered between February 2016 and July 2020 as the main source of data were complemented by 2015 data on San Andrés linguistic landscapes. The main finding is that, due to a favorable change in language attitudes both locally and globally, San Andrés-Providence Creole is entering into the domain of writing.

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Author Biography

Angela Bartens, University of Turku

Ph.D. in Romance Philology (Linguistics), Georg August-Universität Göttingen, 1995. Visiting scholar at the Linguistics Department of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1996-1997; assistant professor at the Instituto de Estudios Caribeños, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede San Andrés, 1999; acting professor of Ibero-Romance Languages, University of Helsinki, 2001-2006; full professor of Spanish at the University of Turku since 2010/2012. Research interests: contact linguistics including creole languages and other minority minority/minorized languages; language ideologies, vitality, and development; language variation and change; Spanish and Portuguese morphosyntax; critical discourse analysis.

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