When Creole and Spanish Collide

Glenda-Alicia Leung, Ph.D. (2013), University of Freiburg, is a linguist who is passionate about her professional engagement in the translation and localization industry. She has published articles on Trinidadian English/Creole, including “YouTube Comments as Metalanguage Data on Non-standardized Languages” in Data Analytics in Digital Humanities . Miki Loschky, Ph.D. (2014), Kansas State University, is Instructor of Japanese at that university. Her research interest includes cognitive benefits of bilingualism and its sociolinguistic implications. She has published “From schema-based information to situation models: How can we bridge theories of comprehension and practice?” (2015).

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Preface: When Creole and Spanish Collide

 Glenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky



part 1: Semiotics and Literary Imaginings in Creole Contexts

1 Colombian Caribbean: Theory, Criticism and Writing

 Marcelo José Cabarcas Ortega



2 If Signs Could Talk: The Linguistic Landscape of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia

 Falcon Restrepo-Ramos



part 2: Linguistic Clash and Consequence

3 Language Variation, Language Ideologies, and Challenges to Language Development in the Creole-Speaking Communities of San Andrés, Providence, and the Nicaraguan Coast

 Angela Bartens



4 Lexical Transfer from Spanish into Limonese Creole

 Marva Spence Sharpe



5 Limonese Syllable Structure: Language Innovation in Creoles

 Marisol Joseph-Haynes, Camille A. Wagner Rodríguez and Yolanda Rivera Castillo



6 “Lo que hacen mix es el Kriol y el English”: How Spanish Speakers Reconcile Linguistic Encounters with English and Kriol in Belize

 Nicté Fuller Medina



part 3: Creole Counter-Clash

7 Perceptions on Language, Identity and Culture by Dominicans on St. Thomas, u.s. Virgin Islands

 Daniel S. D’Arpa



8 Language Attrition in Papiamentu-Jamaican Creole Contact: Revelations of the Determiner Phrase

 Trecel Messam



part 4: Evolving Ethnicities in the Diaspora

9 When a Paña Speaks Creole: Crossing Ethnolinguistic Boundaries

 Monique Schoch Angel



10 Afro-Panamanian Creolization

 Francis Njubi Nesbitt



part 5: Living Linguistic Identities and Ideologies

11 The Multiplex Symbolic Functions of Spanish in Multilingual Belize

 Britta Schneider



12 Samples of Linguistic Repertoires, Language Shift Patterns and Perceptions of Spanish in Bluefields, Nicaragua

 Karen López Alonzo



13 Generalmente el Criol es empezamos en inglés y terminamos en español: Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica

 Ashley LaBoda



Epilogue: Sisters of the Shell

 Glenda-Alicia Leung, Felisha Maria and Rhea Ramjohn