Brigittine M. French
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brigittine M. French is involved.
Articles
2008 6. Maya ethnolinguistic identity: Violence, and cultural rights in bilingual Kaqchikel communities Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages, Niño-Murcia, Mercedes and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 127–150 | Article
2003 The politics of Mayan linguistics in Guatemala: Native speakers, expert analysts, and the nation Pragmatics 13:4, pp. 483–498 | Article
In this essay I examine the emergence and transformation of linguistic analysis as an authoritative field of knowledge in the context of competing nationalists agendas in Guatemala. I show how various social actors including missionary linguists, North American secular linguists, and Maya… read more