28.4953, Books: Borrowing: Poplack

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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:35:54
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Borrowing: Poplack

 


Title: Borrowing 
Subtitle: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/borrowing-9780190256371 


Author: Shana Poplack

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190256371 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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