Lexical Discontinuities between Generations: Recent Inuit Cases from North Baffin Island

Bordin, Guy

doi:10.1353/anl.2009.0003

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“…In the case of extreme word loss, it often involves words or phrases with meanings that are no longer relevant to a particular linguistic community or generation as in the case of the Inuit community in North Baffin Island (Bordin, 2009).These dying words are closely related to the Inuits' traditional culture and religion. Thus, a clear lexical discontinuity between generations of Inuit speakers is observable.…”

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Word familiarity and lexical change: The case of Sarawak Malay Dialect

Radina

Rosnah²,

Sarbini-Zin³

2012

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This preliminary study looks at the familiarity rating of words in Sarawak Malay Dialect (SMD). Although familiarity ratings of language items are usually utilised in psycholinguistic research, they can be very useful for studies in the area of language change. The aim of this study is twofold: (1) to compare the perceptive familiarity rating of Sarawak Malay words; and (2) to document Sarawak Malay words that are undergoing lexical change. Fifty SMD words were used in this study consisting of those with meanings that can be considered as medium to high in frequency for everyday speech. Questionnaires were designed using a 5-point Likert-type scale to rate word familiarity and distributed to 15 participants who were native SMD speakers between the ages of 20 and 25. Across word items, more than one third were found to be rated as less familiar and unknown and thus were not actively used in daily conversations. There were also a number of words perceived as familiar to highly familiar but were not widely used in everyday speech. Evidently, it is crucial to document and preserve these SMD words as they are fast becoming passive vocabulary for the young and may eventually be lost in their lexicon.

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Word familiarity and lexical change: The case of Sarawak Malay Dialect

Radina

Rosnah²,

Sarbini-Zin³

2012

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“…The statistical analysis of the participants’ responses to the questionnaire showed that there was a statistically significant lexical gap between younger and older generations in the Jizani dialect. Thus, age can detect and cause lexical changes (Bordin, 2009; Nagy, 2011; Saladino, 1990; Sharma and Sankaran, 2011). The difference between the two generations was in favour of the new one.…”

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“…The age factor might result in vocabulary loss. In his study, Bordin (2009) found that younger people had not heard certain Inuktitut terms, while old people recognised them even though they hardly used them. He also found that word loss included words and phrases with meanings that were irrelevant to a specific speech community or generation.…”

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“…Grondelaers and Geeraerts (2009) studied lexical variation and change due to sociolinguistic factors using corpus-based data. Social factors, such as “social class, age, race, religion and other factors” (Trudgill, 2000, p. 24) can cause language and dialect changes, including lexical ones (Bordin, 2009; Saladino, 1990; Sharma and Sankaran, 2011).…”

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Lexical gap between old and new generations in a Jizani dialect: a sociolinguistic mixed method study

Hakami

2022

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PurposeThis study aims to identify and measure the lexical gap between the old and young generations in the Jizani dialect and determine the causes of that gap.Design/methodology/approachA 20-item questionnaire was distributed randomly among 104 participants. Next, 12 participants were selected and interviewed. SPSS software was used to analyse the quantitative data from the questionnaire. The data elicited from the interviews was qualitatively analysed, considering age and gender factors.FindingsThe major findings revealed that a lexical gap between old and young language speakers in the Jizani dialect exists. The gap between young females and the older generation was greater than that between young and old males. Some old words are likely to disappear in the coming decades. Social media, which is a time-consuming and word-borrowing medium for young people, was one of the reasons, besides the tendency of females to use prestigious words.Originality/valueThis study attempted to find the differences between the vocabularies of old and young speakers. If it does exist, is it significant? What are the reasons for this lexical gap? This will help other researchers and dialectologists register the old words before they die out and try to bridge that lexical gap.

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Non-humains (« esprits ») et cycles saisonnier et circadien chez les Inuit canadiens

Bordin¹

2020

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Dans la pensée inuit, le monde sensible était non seulement peuplé d’humains et d’animaux, mais également d’une multitude d’êtres non humains (autres que les animaux), souvent dénommés « esprits », aux caractéristiques presque aussi variées qu’il est possible d’en imaginer et formant des sociétés originales. Un trait pourtant semble les distinguer de ce que les ethnographes rapportent bien souvent de leurs enquêtes à travers les continents : les non-humains inuit n’apparaissent pas ontologiquement liés au monde de la nuit et de l’obscurité. Une singularité que l’on propose de mettre en correspondance avec cette autre ligne de force de la pensée inuit qui voit dans les relations entre obscurité et lumière, et entre nuit et jour, continuité plutôt qu’opposition.

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Lexical Discontinuities between Generations: Recent Inuit Cases from North Baffin Island

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Word familiarity and lexical change: The case of Sarawak Malay Dialect

Word familiarity and lexical change: The case of Sarawak Malay Dialect

Lexical gap between old and new generations in a Jizani dialect: a sociolinguistic mixed method study

Non-humains (« esprits ») et cycles saisonnier et circadien chez les Inuit canadiens

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