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El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras

de Nijs, Paul E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363293768

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2013, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Spanish.
Garifuna is a language spoken by thousands of people in Central America and in the United States. It is considered a mixed language of Arawak and Caribe descent. It has been demonstrated that indigenous languages in much of the world face endangerment; Garifuna is no exception. In many communities, Garifuna is threatened by the dominant language, either Spanish or English. Studies have, however, shown that in some Garifuna communities a process of language maintenance and revitalization is occurring. This study investigates the Garifuna community of Sangrelaya, Honduras. The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the state of Garifuna and Spanish spoken in Sangrelaya. The intent was to study factors involved with language use and maintenance, including: speech domains, linguistic landscape, literacy, and linguistic attitudes in order to diagnose the ethnolinguistic vitality of Garifuna and Spanish in Sangrelaya. The investigator utilized a sociolinguistic survey and personal observations for collecting data. The sociolinguistic survey consisted of questions relating to daily use of the languages, the degree of literacy in the two languages, the language of mass media, linguistic attitudes, and the linguistic landscape. The results indicate that the residents of Sangrelaya are bilingual in Spanish and Garifuna. It also suggests positive ethnolinguistic vitality. Even though some factors such as linguistic landscape and the institutional language are not in favor of maintenance of Garifuna, other factors such as speech community, separation of the linguistic domains, and a positive linguistic attitude are in favor of maintenance of the language.
Cynthia Ducar, PhD (Advisor)
Lynn Pearson, PhD (Committee Member)
Pedro Porben, PhD (Committee Member)
116 p.
Foreign Language; Language; Linguistics; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Sociolinguistics
Language Use and Maintenance; uso y mantenimiento de la lengua; Garifuna; Sangrelaya; Honduras; Speech Domain; ambitos linguisticos; Linguistic Landscape; paisaje linguistico; linguistic attitudes; bilingualism; bilinguismo; vitality; sociolinguistics

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  • de Nijs, P. E. (2013). El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363293768

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • de Nijs, Paul. El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras . 2013. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363293768.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • de Nijs, Paul. "El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363293768

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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