Alterity marking and enhancing accessibility in lexical borrowing

Meta-information techniques in the use of incipient anglicisms in French and Italian

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21462995
AutoresEsme Winter-Froemel (0000-0003-3437-8864, Neuphilologisches Institut/Romanistik , Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg , Würzburg , Germany, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen0
Número0
Fecha de publicación2023-04-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFolia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0165-4004 • E-ISSN: 1614-7308
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/folia-2023-2016
OpenAlexW4367185644
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

Previous research has highlighted that the use of lexical borrowings is often accompanied by metalinguistic elements that have been analysed as flags or alterity markers. This paper aims to investigate the use of these markers from a usage-based perspective, focusing on their functions in communication. It will first be argued that lexical borrowings may pose certain challenges to recipient-language speakers; these challenges will be rephrased as features of reduced accessibility. The notion of reduced accessibility will be elaborated by commenting on both form-related aspects concerning the items’ conformity with respect to the RL system (pronunciation, spelling, morphology) and content-related aspects concerning semantic transparency as defined in diachronic cognitive onomasiology. It will then be argued that in addition to the function of alterity marking, the markers also serve to enhance the accessibility of lexical borrowings. A revised categorisation of three types of relevant meta-information techniques will be proposed (flagging, metalinguistic comments, frame information). A survey on the use of recent anglicisms in French and Italian newspaper articles will reveal how the use of meta-information techniques can be seen as a strategy to communicatively negotiate and facilitate the use of borrowed items. Finally, implications of the usage-based approach to alterity marking and enhancing accessibility will be discussed

Alterity · Epistemology · Linguistics · Morpheme · Negotiation · Newspaper · Pronunciation · Sociology · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence