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Mon Oct 09 2006

Books: Sociolinguistics: Ngom

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint-Louis, Senegal: Ngom

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Message 1: Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint-Louis, Senegal: Ngom
Date: 06-Oct-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint-Louis, Senegal: Ngom


Title: Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint-Louis,
Senegal Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Sociolinguistics 05 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom.at

Author: Fallou Ngom, Western Washington University Paperback: ISBN: 3895863548 Pages: 198 Price: Europe EURO 60.00
Abstract:

Although lexical borrowing has always been a central topic in linguisticresearch, its study has suffered from three major limitations: 1) It hasfailed to consider social variations in patterns of borrowings. 2) It hasassumed a model of two languages in contact. 3) Researchers mostly collectdata from communities regardless of the social strata, the political andideological motivations of the subjects, and conclusions are generalized tothe whole community.

This study challenges these assumptions by using a quantitative andqualitative approach to study lexical borrowing in a socially diversemultilingual community, the northern and Southern districts of Saint-Louis,Senegal. In so doing, I explore new methodological and theoretical terrainwith broad implications for future research since the vast majority of theworld's population today lives in such socially and linguistically diversecommunities where language use is often socially,politically or ideologically conditioned.

The primary goal of this research is to demonstrate that in post-colonialfrancophone multilingual societies such as Saint-Louis, Senegal, loans andthe linguistic incorporation processes that accompany them aresociolinguistic variables. This study sheds light on the linguistic natureand the social, cultural, historical, political and ideological importanceof lexical borrowing in the multilingual Saint-Louisian speech community inparticular and sub-Saharan African communities in general (wheremultilingualism is the norm).

By means of a quantitative and qualitative methodology, the studydemonstrates that there are strong relationships between lexical borrowingsand age groups in multilingual communities, and that linguistic processesthat go along with lexical borrowings also follow the same pattern.Finally, this study contributes to our understanding of how linguistic,cultural, political and ideological systems around the world articulatewith one another through lexical borrowing in both pragmatic andtheoretical ways. It also gives us a deeper understanding of the actuallinguistic, social, political and ideological nature of lexical borrowings,and provides empirical methodology to future quantitative and qualitativestudies of lexical borrowing in the field of linguistics, sociolinguisticsand linguistic anthropology. Above all, this study provides a window on theabiding theoretical problem of the study of lexical borrowings associolinguistic variables.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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