missingsch?

[Stephen Matthews]

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Dear all,
I think this is quite common in diglossic situations. In the S. Asian
context, Britto's book on diglossia defines 'pseudo-H' as a register aiming
at H but retaining features of L.
Stephen


At 09:51 AM 4/8/2005 -0400, you wrote:
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>In a recent query to Linguist-List (below) Wiggers asks if there are other
>examples in the world of L-variety speakers imitating H-variety languages,
>but not quite getting it right, and subsequent jokes etc. about this.
>I'm wondering if there are examples in South Asian languages of this
>phenomenon. In South Asia we have of course lots of lampooning of
>non-standard dialects in films etc. but it's not a case of those speakers
>trying to imitate H-variety.
>
>Hal Schiffman
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>Message 2: Missingsch
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>Date: 05-Apr-2005
>From: Heiko Wiggers <wiggersheikohotmail.com>
>Subject: Missingsch
>
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>Dear all,
>
>I am doing research on Low German and have come across an interesting
>phenomenon, called Missingsch. Missingsch is defined as the attempt to
>speak High German but with a Low German substrate, i.e. it is a mix of Low
>and High German. It originated ca. in 18th/19th century when Low German
>was
>more and more regarded as "backwards", and its speakers started to imitate
>High German because it was seen as "sophisticated". A lot of fun has been
>made of this mix language, and it continues to this day, mostly in satire
>etc. My question is: are there any other mix languages that originated in
>a similar fashion? For example, to use Ferguson's terms, speakers of a Low
>variety decide to imitate the High variety, and the outcome is a mixture
>of
>H and L?
>
>thanks
>
>Heiko Wiggers
>Undergraduate Instructor of German and Dutch
>University of Texas at Austin
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