836-B8-197 Between resistance and oblivion. Strategies for preserving and strengthening of Creole in afro-descendant families
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Given that some studies agree that one of the minority languages with the largest number of speakers in Costa Rica, namely Limone’s Creole, is clearly weakened for mainly socio-political reasons and that the younger Afro-Limonense generations hardly speak it because they think that “it is of no use to them” or that “Creole is poorly spoken English”, the suspicion arises that a significant percentage of young Afro-Limonense parents do not encourage the learning of Creole in new generations; Thus, it is quite possible that even younger generations are mostly monolingual to Spanish and that Creole is primarily spoken by adults or older adults; at best, younger generations may be passive Creole speakers, but that they do so in very limited contexts. In fact, an exploratory study of this field reveals precisely that.
This project is designed to clarify the current reality regarding the promotion of Limon’s Creole within the family in two districts of the province of Limón in young generations through surveys of fathers, mothers, stepfathers and stepmothers, as well as their sons and daughters children under 15 years old in a group of families from that province. Not only will the number of families that promote Creole learning and the way they do it, as well as the reasons why they do it, be investigated, but the percentage of young people under 15 who truly conceive themselves as creole speakers and their perception of it.
The results of this research will define the need to strengthen that minority language, in order to avoid further weakening and disappearing in the medium or short term. As a future research-action work, it is expected to be able to work with Afro-descendant communities in different areas of the province of Limón to extol the importance of Creole in order to maintain and revitalize its identity roots through formal and informal activities in which It is achieved that a greater number of families value and promote the promotion of their Creole language, next to Spanish.
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Winner of the Research Stimulus Fund, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Costa Rica, 2018-2019
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Presentations
February 8th, 2019: "Entre la resistencia y el olvido: lo que la población afro-limonense opina sobre la lengua criolla como parte de su cultura". Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede del Caribe.
February 9th, 2019: "Entre la resistencia y el olvido: lo que la población afro-limonense opina sobre la lengua criolla como parte de su cultura". Casa de la Cultura, Cahuita.
Vásquez Carranza, L.M. (7 y 8 de febrero, 2018). Entre la resistencia y el olvido. Lo que la población afro-limonense opina sobre la lengua criolla como parte de su identidad. (Presentación preliminar de resultados en Limón centro y Cahuita).
Vásquez Carranza, L.M. (12 junio, 2018). La cultra afro-limonense y su lengua criolla. V Encuentro Regional de Jóvenes Afro en la provincia de Limón, actividad organizada por la UNIA (Asociación para el Mejoramiento de la Persona Negra).
Vásquez Carranza, L.M: (19 de agosto, 2019). Resistance or forgetting: The truth about the Limonense Creole spoken in the Limon Province, Costa Rica. V Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Aplicada (CILAP), Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica.
Vásquez Carranza, L.M. (23 de agosto, 2019). El criollo limonense, parte esencial de la identidad afro-costarricense. VII Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales, Sede de Guanacaste, Universidad de Costa Rica.
Vásquez Carranza, L.M. /17 de octubre, 2018). Entre la resistencia y el olvido: El caso del criollo-limonense en la provincia de Limón. Costa Rica. IV Seminario Internacional Culturas, Desarrollos y Educaciones (SICDES), Santiago de Chile.
Vásquez Carranza, L.M. (21 de noviembre, 2019). Señales de resistencia y retos para mantener la lengua criolla limonense en la provincia de Limón, Costa Rica. Percepción de adultos y jóvenes’. III Terceras Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Afrocentroamericanos, Roatán, Honduras.
Published Articles
Vásquez, L.M. (ene-jun, 2019). Señales de resistencia: el criollo en la provincia de Limón, Costa Rica. Revista Fórum Identidades, v. 29, n° 01, pp. 147-167.
Kérwá repository https://hdl.handle.net/10669/86360
https://seer.ufs.br/index.php/forumidentidades/article/view/12358
Vásquez, L.M. (ago-dic 2021). El papel de los jóvenes en el mantenimiento de lenguas minoritarias: El caso del criollo limonense, Costa Rica. Revista Anales de Lingüística (Segunda época), n.7, pp. 17-50
Kérwá repository https://hdl.handle.net/10669/86869
https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/analeslinguistica/article/d…
Vásquez, L. (2021). Resistencia u olvido: la lengua Criolla Limonense de la Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica [artículo de ponencia]. VI Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Aplicada. Heredia, Costa Rica, pp. 31-49
Kérwá repository https://hdl.handle.net/10669/87009