Language Awareness and Correct Speech among the Tariana of Northwest Amazonia  

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 43 no. 4 (Mar. 2001), page 411-430.
Fulltext: Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 411-430.pdf (2.38MB)

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This article discusses the way 'correct" and "incorrect" language uses are rationalized by Tariana speakers in the linguistic area of the Vaupes River basin in Brazil. This area is known for its institutionalized multilin- gualism due to linguistic exogamy operating between the Tariana and speakers of a number of languages belonging to the East Tucano subgroup of Tucano family. There is a strong constraint against language mixing in Tariana. This constraint operates predominantly against loan forms and items that contain Tucano-like sounds. A few morphosyntactic constructions calqued from East Tucano languages are also identified as "incorrect" Tariana. An additional mechanism, which helps determine what is "correct" and what is not, is con- stant reference to the way in which representatives of older generations speak.

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