Borrowed words, mock language and nationalism in Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID12702011
AuthorsRachelle Vessey (0000-0002-2350-7758, Newcastle University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume14
Issue2
Pages176-190
Publication date2014-01-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-8477 • E-ISSN: 1747-759X
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14708477.2013.863905
OpenAlexW1994684443
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited36

This study explores ‘mock language’ by examining borrowed words in Canadian newspaper data. Mock language refers to the (usually negative) connotations that emerge as a result of the dual indexicality of borrowed words. Dual indexicality functions by allowing speakers to draw on stereotypes about other languages and speakers, thus reinforcing the role of languages as boundary marking devices. Using the methodological approach ‘cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse studies’, this paper draws on English and French examples from a corpus of Canadian newspapers. In Canada, languages serve not only as boundary markers, but also as icons of national groups; thus, borrowed words have implications for understandings of belonging in Canada and other multilingual and multicultural nations

Heteroglossia · Indexicality · Language contact · Linguistics · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Multilingualism · Nationalism · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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