Borrowing
Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 November 2017
- ISBN 9780190256371
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 155x231x17 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book focuses on the process of lexical borrowing: how bilinguals introduce and adapt foreign items into recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Building on more than three decades of original research, Shana Poplack demystifies the phenomenon of borrowing as practiced by bilinguals in the context of their speech communities.
MoreLong description:
Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another.
This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the source: bilingual speakers in their social context. Building on more than three decades of original research based on vast quantities of spontaneous performance data and a highly ramified analytical apparatus, Shana Poplack characterizes the phenomenon of lexical borrowing in the speech community and in the grammar, both synchronically and diachronically.
In contrast to most other treatments, which deal with the product of borrowing (if they consider it at all), this book examines the process: how speakers go about incorporating foreign items into their bilingual discourse; how they adapt them to recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Attacking some of the most contentious issue in language mixing research empirically, it tests hypotheses about established loanwords, nonce borrowings and code-switches on a wealth of unique datasets on typologically similar and distinct language pairs. A major focus is the detailed analysis of integration: the principal mechanism underlying the borrowing process. Though the shape the borrowed form assumes may be colored by community convention, Poplack shows that the act of transforming donor-language elements into native material is universal.
Emphasis on actual speaker behavior coupled with strong standards of proof, including data-driven reports of rates of occurrence, conditioning of variant choice and measures of statistical significance, make Borrowing an indispensable reference on language contact and bilingual behavior.
It is an exceptional academic pleasure to review a book that you can recommend in the highest possible terms: Shana Poplack's new monograph is innovative, thorough, extremely well documneted, with a potential to become both a game-changer and immediate classic.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations and Conventions
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Variationist Perspective on Borrowing
Chapter 3 Bilingual Corpora
Chapter 4 Borrowing in the Speech Community
Chapter 5 Dealing with Variability in Loanword Integration
Chapter 6 The Bare Facts of Borrowing
Chapter 7 Confirmation through Replication: Other Language Pairs, Other Diagnostics
Chapter 8 How Nonce Borrowings Become Loanwords
Chapter 9 Distinguishing Borrowing and Code-Switching: Why it Matters
Chapter 10 The Role of Phonetics in Borrowing and Integration
Chapter 11 The Social Dynamics of Borrowing
Chapter 12 Epilogue
Appendix A Speaker Characteristics of the Ottawa-Hull Corpus
Appendix B Sources of Attestation Histories for English-origin words in the Ottawa-hull corpus
References
Index
