2011
DOI: 10.7202/1001941ar
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St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix: How gender and education affect language choice and attitudes in a multilingual context

Abstract: Based on interviews conducted within a community of St. Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl) speakers on the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, the authors investigated the use of and attitudes towards Kwéyòl, English, Spanish, and Crucian Creole, the four most widely-spoken languages on St. Croix. The article examines the roles of two social variables, namely gender and education, in questions of language choice and attitudes in this bilingual creolophone community. Some of the more remarkable revelations of this st… Show more

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