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Submitted August 12, 2024
Published 2024-08-16

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No. 21 (2024): Cátedra

The Linguistic Displacement of Ngäbere in favor of Spanish in the Life Stories of Ngäbe students at the School of Spanish at the University of Panama

DOI https://doi.org/10.48204/j.catedra.n21.a5559

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DOI: 10.48204/j.catedra.n21.a5559

Published: 2024-08-16

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Domínguez Córdoba, D. (2024). The Linguistic Displacement of Ngäbere in favor of Spanish in the Life Stories of Ngäbe students at the School of Spanish at the University of Panama. Cátedra, (21), 164–186. https://doi.org/10.48204/j.catedra.n21.a5559

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Abstract

The present study deals with linguistic displacement in six first-time bilingual Ngäbere-Spanish students at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Panama. The methodology is based on a semi-structured interview (sociolinguistic history) that served as a guide in the conversation and which gave an account of how the two languages have been handled in their family life, community, school and work. In this way, the research exercise presented here aims to interpret the mobility of the Ngäbere language towards the dominant language, Spanish. The theorists who will serve as a basis for this work are: Zimmermann (1995), Thomason 2001, Thomason and Kaufman 1998. Appel and Muysken (1996), Tsunoda (2004) Moreno Cabrera (2010). The results reveal sociolinguistic differences in relation to age, education, use of one language or another, depending on the communicative context.

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