A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective
This paper analyses borrowing from a sociolinguistic and translanguaging perspective through which it is viewed as a site for linguistic contestation, struggle, and power where some languages benefit while others lose out. The paper problematizes the process of borrowing and presents it as both emp...
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This paper analyses borrowing from a sociolinguistic and translanguaging perspective through which it is viewed as a site for linguistic contestation, struggle, and power where some languages benefit while others lose out. The paper problematizes the process of borrowing and presents it as both empowering and disempowering. Empowerment is realized when borrowing is viewed as a translanguaging strategy through which loanwords are seen as representing creativity, dynamism, and the free movement of linguistic elements across language boundaries. Disempowerment is seen in linguistic prestige which causes restrictions in the movement of linguistic elements, language loss, lack of documentation, and insufficient etymologization which all lead to failure to acknowledge the contribution and existence of minority languages in the development of dominant languages.
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| spelling | doaj.art-705108fe86cc4ca4ba0a274a1648c8f42023-12-18T05:16:30ZengLibraryPress@UFStudies in African Linguistics0039-35332154-428X2023-12-0152Supplement 13A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspectiveMompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi This paper analyses borrowing from a sociolinguistic and translanguaging perspective through which it is viewed as a site for linguistic contestation, struggle, and power where some languages benefit while others lose out. The paper problematizes the process of borrowing and presents it as both empowering and disempowering. Empowerment is realized when borrowing is viewed as a translanguaging strategy through which loanwords are seen as representing creativity, dynamism, and the free movement of linguistic elements across language boundaries. Disempowerment is seen in linguistic prestige which causes restrictions in the movement of linguistic elements, language loss, lack of documentation, and insufficient etymologization which all lead to failure to acknowledge the contribution and existence of minority languages in the development of dominant languages. https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/134982translanguagingborrowinglinguistic contestationSetswana |
| spellingShingle | Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective Studies in African Linguistics translanguaging borrowing linguistic contestation Setswana |
| title | A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective |
| title_full | A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective |
| title_fullStr | A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective |
| title_short | A critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective |
| title_sort | critique of linguistic borrowing from a translanguaging perspective |
| topic | translanguaging borrowing linguistic contestation Setswana |
| url | https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/134982 |
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