Whose Kriol is Moa Beta? Prestige and Dialects of Kriol in Belize

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Language Ideology, Gender, and Varieties of Belizean Kriol

“…If language attitude studies of English-based creoles in the Caribbean are rare, language attitude studies toward regional variation within Caribbean creoles are practically nonexistent. Salmon and Gómez Menjívar (2014, in press), for example, provide the first such preliminary attempts at describing a regional attitude system of this type in two test sites in Belize: that is, Belize City and Punta Gorda. This has provided a useful starting point for the present article; however, Salmon and Gómez Menjívar (2014) make no mention of gender differences at all, while Salmon and Gómez Menjívar (in press) provide only a cursory account of gender attitudes and no consideration of the data across the two test sites.…”

“…In the next section, we introduce the Kriol language and the Creole people of Belize. This section also includes a discussion of previous work on language attitudes in Belize and the larger anglophone Caribbean, as reported in Salmon and Gómez Menjívar (2014, in press). Then, we present our fieldwork methodology, followed by results and a discussion in subsequent sections.…”

A Multiple Streams Framework Approach to Access to Domestic Violence Services in an Indigenous Community

“…Belize is a diverse Central American country with a sparse population of about 324,528 individuals (Warren-Gordon, 2020). Although Belize is linguistically diverse, it is mostly an English-speaking Caribbean country uniquely situated in Central America (Salmon & Menjivar, 2014; Warren-Gordon, 2020). The major ethnic groups in Belize are Mestizo, Creole, Maya (Ket’chi, Mopan, and Yucatec), and Garifuna as identified by the 2010 population census (Statistical Institute of Belize, 2013).…”