This Monday I started to teach a new seminar in the Master of Education programme: Language Ideologies and Language Teaching – Dealing with Postcolonial Variation and Diversity in the Language Classroom https://www.fu-berlin.de/vv/de/lv/231715?sm=181709 We had really interesting discussions on Monday and I am looking forward to an inspiring semester where we work on how the social […]
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Centre for Transnational Studies in Southampton
See here for my talk last week in Southampton: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/ilc/2015/09/29/tns-seminar-wed-7th-october-dr-britta-schneider/ Thanks to Patrick Stevenson for the invitation, I had a great time and met very interesting people!
Globalising Sociolinguistics
Just returned from a conference in Leiden, The Netherlands. It was on ‚Globalising Sociolinguistics‘ and aimed to address mismatches between mainstream sociolinguistic models and non-Anglo-Western sociolinguistic settings. And of course, Belizean sociolinguistic economy with its complex, sometimes contradictory patterns of language use and social affiliation fitted well into this. I gave a talk on ‚Overcoming methodological nationalism‘, where […]
GAPS – Ideologies in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
Back in Germany and last week, I gave a talk at the GAPS conference in Münster, Germany. GAPS (formerly ‚ASNEL‘, the Association for the Study of the New Literatures) is now the ‚Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) and hosted a conference on ideologies in postcolonial texts and contexts. I spoke about language choices in […]
The Split
The Split is a gap between the northern and the southern part of Caye Caulker, the Belizean island where I conduct ethnographic research, and it apparently was created by a hurricane and was then made bigger by fishermen who thus had a shorter way to the gas station. The Split is now the most northern part of […]
Meeting Pen Cayetano
This weekend, I met Pen Cayetano at his studio in Dangriga, a little town in the south of Belize which is known for its Garifuna population and also called the cultural capital of Belize. Pen is the inventor of Punta Rock, which is, next to Brukdown, one of the popular music styles considered to be authentically Belizean […]
Standard language – a thing of the past?
Kriol as a written language… During the last weeks, I met some really interesting people – for example Silvaana Udz from the National Kriol Council. She is teaching in the education department at the University of Belize and is a language activist, striving for making Kriol a written, standard language. She and other members of the […]
What is it with this Kriol?
At the moment, when thinking about all the languages in Belize, I actually start to think that the most fascinating aspect is that Kriol is the oral lingua franca, which is nevertheless rejected as a language of writing, high culture and education. So far, almost everyone I interviewed, either in a more formal and recorded […]
Call for Papers – Language Ideologies in Music
Language Ideologies in Music: Emergent Socialities in the Age of Transnationalism The aim of this publication project is to bring together studies of language ideologies in the context of popular music. Language ideologies can give an intricate understanding of linguistic affiliation in an age of transnationalism, where apriori categorisations – among them the native speaker, […]
Belize – an English-speaking country… ?
I have arrived safely on Caye Caulker, a small island in the Caribbean Sea where about 1500 people live permanently. I have chosen this site as it is not only small and so I hope to get into community life more easily, I am also interested in how global tourism affects language practices – Caye […]
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