Kaleidoscopes of indexicality: multiplex symbolic functions of language and unfocused social categories
Original data from an ethnographic study on the indexical meanings of language in a multilingual and ethnically highly diverse context in Belize, Central America, demonstrate that ascribing language to ethnic belonging does not necessarily work. The Belizean language Kriol, an English-lexified Creol...
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Anthropological Society of Oxford
2017
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