Situated at the intersection of sociophonetics, semiotic anthropology and enactive linguistics, this book explores how linguistic variation is unequally reinterpreted depending on stereotypes about the speaker. Focused on the Colombian Caribbean coast, it reveals processes of discrimination through the differential perception of variation through the prism of social and racial dynamics.

Situated at the intersection of sociophonetics, semiotic anthropology and enactive linguistics, this book explores how linguistic variation is unequally reinterpreted depending on stereotypes about the speaker. Focused on the Colombian Caribbean coast, it reveals processes of discrimination through the differential perception of variation through the prism of social and racial dynamics.