The Elaboration of an Emerging Standard  

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Joseph, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 6 no. 1 (1984), page 39-52.
Fulltext: 06_01_Joseph.pdf (656.95KB)

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Research on the rise of standard languages has shown that the phenomenon generally occurs as part of a developing society's overall acculturation to some superposed model, via imitation of this "high" culture's already standardized tongue. The "low" language does not readily adjust to functional spheres formerly reserved for the "high," and its speakers tend to develop feelings of inferiority and ineloquence which hamper the progress of standardization, often engendering active resistance within the native speech community. Gradually, however, a cultural avant-garde within the "low" community brings about the elaboration of their dialect, with new structural and lexical elements drawn from the superposed tongue(s). Elaboration begins with simple transference of elements, which later undergo nativization by adjustment either of the borrowing system or of the elements themselves. As the process continues and the effects of elaboration become more widely visible and audible, resistance fades, the public mood shifts, and the newly elaborated standard may soon find itself superposed and serving as model for some other dialect's "acculturation."

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