Norme vir huidiglik
Norms of huidiglik. In Afrikaans, huidiglik is a truly Janus-faced word: it is being used with high frequency in especially spoken language, while at the same time being one of the biggest language pet-peeves of language practitioners (and even ordinary speakers of Afrikaans). When asked why huidigl...
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| author | Gerhard B. van Huyssteen |
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| description | Norms of huidiglik. In Afrikaans, huidiglik is a truly Janus-faced word: it is being used with high frequency in especially spoken language, while at the same time being one of the biggest language pet-peeves of language practitioners (and even ordinary speakers of Afrikaans). When asked why huidiglikshould be avoided, these language practitioners and language users often cannot provide any reasoning about it. A comprehensive literature review also reveals that linguists and language practitioners often give contradictory, or even linguistically incorrect reasons for why huidiglik is supposedly not acceptable in (standard) Afrikaans. By comparing a variety of normative grammaticographic sources (such as reference guides and prescriptive grammars), this article shows that: (1) huidiglik originated, on a balance of probability, in the 1970s in the South African Parliament; and (2) apart from stylistic preferences (e.g. that it sounds pretentious, feigned and affectatious), none of the linguistic arguments against huidiglik holds water. In a supplementary article in this issue of the journal it is being illustrated that huidiglik is alive and well in written (Standard) Afrikaans. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95467ff6a56e438687680d3e8a6a16072022-12-21T20:11:16ZafrAOSISLiterator0258-22792219-82372018-09-01392e1e1010.4102/lit.v39i2.15261267Norme vir huidiglikGerhard B. van Huyssteen0Center for Text Technology, North-West UniversityNorms of huidiglik. In Afrikaans, huidiglik is a truly Janus-faced word: it is being used with high frequency in especially spoken language, while at the same time being one of the biggest language pet-peeves of language practitioners (and even ordinary speakers of Afrikaans). When asked why huidiglikshould be avoided, these language practitioners and language users often cannot provide any reasoning about it. A comprehensive literature review also reveals that linguists and language practitioners often give contradictory, or even linguistically incorrect reasons for why huidiglik is supposedly not acceptable in (standard) Afrikaans. By comparing a variety of normative grammaticographic sources (such as reference guides and prescriptive grammars), this article shows that: (1) huidiglik originated, on a balance of probability, in the 1970s in the South African Parliament; and (2) apart from stylistic preferences (e.g. that it sounds pretentious, feigned and affectatious), none of the linguistic arguments against huidiglik holds water. In a supplementary article in this issue of the journal it is being illustrated that huidiglik is alive and well in written (Standard) Afrikaans.https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1526AfrikaansAnglicismconstructionalisationgrammaticographyhuidiglikhuidigmorphologyprescriptivism |
| spellingShingle | Gerhard B. van Huyssteen Norme vir huidiglik Literator Afrikaans Anglicism constructionalisation grammaticography huidiglik huidig morphology prescriptivism |
| title | Norme vir huidiglik |
| title_full | Norme vir huidiglik |
| title_fullStr | Norme vir huidiglik |
| title_full_unstemmed | Norme vir huidiglik |
| title_short | Norme vir huidiglik |
| title_sort | norme vir huidiglik |
| topic | Afrikaans Anglicism constructionalisation grammaticography huidiglik huidig morphology prescriptivism |
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