A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä

Language making and ownership from the perspective of writing creoles




TekijätBartens Angela

KustantajaInternational Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics

KustannuspaikkaHelsinki

Julkaisuvuosi2022

JournalJournal of postcolonial linguistics

Lehden akronyymiJoPoL

Vuosikerta6

Aloitussivu12

Lopetussivu37

eISSN2670-1421

Verkko-osoitehttps://iacpl.net/jopol/issues/jopol6/language-making-and-ownership/

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/68006396


Tiivistelmä

In this paper, I examine the ideologies and policies on writing creoles as examples of hitherto mostly unwritten languages and test cases for language making as defined by Krämer et al. (forthcoming 2022), also considering issues of language ownership. In socalled “Western ideologies” of what constitutes a language, writing plays an important role. Orthographies and the actors behind them are of interest as, for example, certain graphemes carry heavy sociopolitical connotations, which may emphasize the question of language ownership. I will briefly discuss the orthographies of four Western Caribbean English-lexifier creoles (Belize, Nicaragua, San Andrés-Providence, and Limón) and their evolution over the past three decades in order to address these issues. A useful point of comparison is constituted by the orthographies devised for Haitian Creole and Jamaican.


Ladattava julkaisu

This is an electronic reprint of the original article.
This reprint may differ from the original in pagination and typographic detail. Please cite the original version.





Last updated on 2024-26-11 at 16:17