On the variation of gender in nominal language mixings

Rothe, Astrid

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“…However, with the exception of Geerts (1996), in which a hierarchy of rules is discussed, the interaction between these determinants of anglicism gender remains largely underspecified. Finally, scholars have argued that the gender of anglicisms is stable (but see Rothe, 2014). When variation occurs, the explanation that has been provided is that gender variation only occurs until the noun is established in the speech community.…”

Section: (Dis)agreement Between Respondents: Analysis and Resultsmentioning

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“…With respect to the second issue—that is, variability in gender assignment—scholars have argued that variability or the lack thereof is related to (non-)establishment (but see Rothe 2014): Only those loanwords show variable gender that have not been established in the host language; once a loanword is established, the speakers generally agree about its gender.…”

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“…Second, we empirically investigate the findings of Poplack et al 1982 that the gender of a loanword is variable until the noun is established in the host language by including two types of anglicisms in our dataset. On the one hand, we take into account established anglicisms, which are “widespread, recurrent and accepted” (Rothe 2014:209; see also Muysken 2000). More specifically, we use English nouns that were borrowed in the 1950s or later, but that are already listed (with a particular gender) in a Dutch dictionary.…”

Section: Gender Assignment To Loanwordsmentioning

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“…These types of nouns always receive masculine gender in Russian. 8 Third, some scholars argue that the grammatical gender of a noun in the donor language may play a role as well (Corbett, 1991;Rothe, 2014). However, since in English, nouns do not carry overt gender markers 1 , this rule does not apply to anglicisms.…”

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Let's Agree to Disagree. (Variation in) the Assignment of Gender to Nominal Anglicisms in Dutch

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In this paper, we investigate gender assignment to recently borrowed English loanwords in Dutch, introducing several innovations to the field of gender assignment to anglicisms. First, we use multiple mixed-effects logistic regression to determine which factors underlie gender assignment in Dutch. As this model indicates that there is variation in the amount of homogeneity in the speech community (i.e. agreement between respondents) concerning the gender assigned to an anglicism, we analyze the contexts in which homogeneity is the lowest. This analysis reveals that the amount of agreement does not solely depend on the degree of establishment of an anglicism. In contrast to what has been argued in previous studies, gender assignment to anglicisms in Dutch is not a categorical process.

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“…Badania eksperymentalne obejmujące różne rodzaje zadań dla użytkowników języka-biorcy mogą pozwolić zbadać także inne aspekty postrzegania zapożyczeń i ich ekwiwalentów, na przykład ich cechy aksjologiczne, czy to, w jaki sposób długość tekstu i proporcja użytych w nim zapożyczeń wpływa na ich postrzeganie. Dane pozyskane w wyniku zadań eksperymentalnych są też wykorzystywane w analizie wariantywności rodzaju gramatycznego wtrąceń obcojęzycznych u osób bilingwalnych, w której brane są pod uwagę takie czynniki, jak biegłość językowa i przejrzystość rodzaju gramatycznego (Rothe 2014). Metody eksperymentalne łączy się z narzędziami językoznawstwa korpusowego w celu pełniejszego, diachronicznego zbadania sytuacji, w której dochodzi do kontaktu językowego.…”

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2021

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Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie językowych i parajęzykowych sposobów ekspresji w przekazach internetowych na przykładzie komentarzy umieszczanych przez użytkowników serwisu YouTube pod piosenką Co mi, Panie, dasz w aranżacji Adama Sztaby powstałej w czasie izolacji spowodowanej pandemią koronawirusa. Internauci podkreślają wielość przeżyć towarzyszących im podczas odtwarzania tej piosenki, eksponując odczucia pozytywne: dumę, wzruszenie, podziw, szacunek, wdzięczność, zdziwienie. Na plan pierwszy wysuwają się wartości odczuciowe i estetyczne. Do wyrażenia wartościowania in plus w komentarzach wykorzystywane są zabiegi na poziomie leksykalnym, słowotwórczym, graficznym, a także tropy stylistyczne. Służą one przede wszystkim hiperbolizacji.

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The sociopragmatic parameters steering the reported selection of Anglicisms or their Dutch alternatives

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Researchers studying language variation and change induced by contact with English initially focused on the linguistic integration of English source language (SL) material in the morphophonological structure of the receptor language (RL). Shifting the attention toward the sociopragmatic localization of English lexical material, researchers now foreground both the social identity work conducted with English material and the pragmatic functions of English lexemes and heritage alternatives. So far, however, most of these studies rely on production data, paying less attention to language users’ perception and evaluation of English lexemes. Therefore, integrating insights from language production and evaluation, this study asks the questions (i) which lexical preference speakers express when asked to choose between an English and a heritage form; and (ii) which sociopragmatic parameters help to explain this preference. To answer these questions, a forced-choice experiment was conducted in which over 1,500 Dutch-speaking participants were asked to select their preferred expression when provided with a loanword and a heritage alternative. Each participant was offered 12 target trials and 10 filler trials. The target trials, drawn from a corpus-based study, include a balanced set of loans from three semantic fields with various frequencies in usage data. Pragmatic variation was included by randomly presenting the trials in speech contexts of communicative immediacy and communicative distance. Mixed-effects logistic regression analyses show a significant impact of community-based usage statistics, the age and self-reported attitude of the participant, as well as the speech context in which the concepts were offered.

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On the variation of gender in nominal language mixings

Cited by 11 publications

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Let's Agree to Disagree. (Variation in) the Assignment of Gender to Nominal Anglicisms in Dutch

Let's Agree to Disagree. (Variation in) the Assignment of Gender to Nominal Anglicisms in Dutch

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The sociopragmatic parameters steering the reported selection of Anglicisms or their Dutch alternatives

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