Open AccessBeyond Boundaries: Using Liquid Languages - Interview with Britta Schneider about “Liquid Languages”
Author(s) -
Britta Schneider,
Konstanze Jungbluth
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gragoatá
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2358-4114
pISSN - 1413-9073
DOI - 10.22409/gragoata.v26i54.48791
Subject(s) - symbol (formal) , point (geometry) , linguistics , variation (astronomy) , feature (linguistics) , space (punctuation) , stability (learning theory) , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , physics , philosophy , geometry , astrophysics , machine learning
Data from plurilingual Belize shows that not everyone recognizes stability as an essential feature of aspoken language. Belizeans consider the use of Kriol as a symbol of belonging but foreground its readiness for variation across communities in space and time. Their use of liquid languages is a different form of cultural construction than the one our textbooks show. It questions a good part of linguistics and reveals its possibly Eurocentric point of view.