Emergent communicative norms in a contact language
Indirect requests in heritage Russian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4958889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irina Y Dubinina (0000-0001-9960-3271, Brandeis University), Sophia A Malamud (0000-0002-1321-7685, Brandeis University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-116 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2016-0039 |
| OpenAlex | W2570755357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 20 |
The present paper contributes to the study of speech act pragmatics, language contact, bilingualism, and heritage languages by bringing attention to the pragmatics of a contact language, heritage Russian (HR). The current study has a descriptive orientation, its main goal being to create a baseline for the pragmatic competence of speakers with incomplete acquisition of L1, which characterizes language contact in immigrant populations. We focus on communicative strategies and the choice of linguistic forms in requests made by heritage speakers of Russian, native speakers of full Russian, and native speakers of American English. The specific research questions explored in this study are: Is the linguistic variable - the form of polite requests - correlated with the population (speakers of HR vs. speakers of full Russian)? How do the differences play out? Do HR speakers have their own communicative norms? If yes, did these new norms develop under the influence of English or as a result of language-internal restructuring? We report that HR exhibits evidence of developing its own conventions for expressing polite requests which differ from the corresponding conventions in full Russian. Specifically, HR speakers use significantly more impersonal modals than monolingual native speakers of Russian in informal scenarios and rely on increased syntactic complexity to mark polite requests in formal scenarios. In indirect requests produced in both types of scenarios, HR speakers overuse the downgrader
Communicative competence · Heritage language · Language contact · Linguistic competence · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Politeness · Pragmatics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1.33 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |