Lexical Accession in Sharamboko: A Camp Language in Lesotho  

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Adams, Charles R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 24 no. 2 (1982), page 137-182.
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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ALI/24 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Lexical borrowing has been frequently regarded as a nonsystematic activity. This paper examines a southern African sociolinguistic style of speaking characterized by the systematic exploitation of loanwords in a multilingual, urban contact environment. The social, cultural, psychological, and situational background and significance of the style are examined to provide a semiotic framework for the interpretation of lexical patterns. A statistical technique is used to demonstrate the relationships between lexical patterns and a cluster of subjective factors: lexical-semantic domains, ethnic stereotypes, folk etymologies, and evaluative rankings. The style is inter- preted as a form of ludic ("camp") communication constituting an economic adaptive strategy called lexical aceession: metacommunicative social access through lexical acquisitions. Comparisons are made with related styles, codes, and communicative phenomena.

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