Pragmatic borrowing

The nativization of pragmatic borrowings in remote language contact situations

“…A similar observation is made by Andersen (2014) and his treatment of the word fuck in Norwegian discourse. He makes an example of a Norwegian politician who wrote "Fuck Oslo" on her Twitter profile; this expression was later repeated in oral discourse by the leader of Norway's opposition party…”

“…Pragmatic borrowing from a foreign language; problems with terminology As noted by Andersen (2014), the pragmatic borrowing research conducted so far often originates in communities where English has foreign language status.…”

“…In recent years, it has been noted that the incorporation of English-sourced borrowings is often associated with youth language (see Andersen, 2014;Author, 2014;Sayers, 2014). Likewise, it has been observed that there exists a dichotomy regarding proficiency and use of English: on the one hand, it is associated with education and formal domains, for example in post-colonial settings, but, on the other hand, the use of English is associated with covert Draft do no circulate 14DR…”

“…The term pragmatic borrowing refers to the incorporation of pragmatic and discursive elements into a recipient language (Andersen, 2014). Although the phenomenon to which the term refers had been previously observed (as detailed in Andersen, 2014; see also Terkourafi, 2011), Andersen's article was the first to chronicle the work by himself and other researchers and to legitimize their efforts through the coining of a name for this type of While research on pragmatic borrowing is by no means limited to languages in contact with English, the work detailed by Andersen (2014) investigates pragmatic borrowings from English into other (mostly European) languages, which seems logical, given the role of English as a widespread foreign language and lingua franca throughout much of Europe.…”

“…The primary goal is to follow up on Andersen's (2014) introduction to pragmatic borrowing by offering information about the functional, social, and pragmatic properties of pragmatic borrowings within a recipient language. A secondary goal is to address the under-explored issue of language contact involving a language which has foreign language status within a given territory, as is the case of English in Finland.…”