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"'Eish' It's Getting Really Interesting": Borrowed Interjections in South African English
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Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah; Mampoi Irene Mabena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This article offers a descriptive account of seven interjections, "eish", "yho", "tjo", "sho", "hayi", "hau", and "mxm", which are adopted from different local South African languages into South African English. It investigates the frequencies, orthography, syntactic position,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Syntax, Pragmatics, English
"Every Word Is a World": Loanword Ideologies and Linguistic Purism in Post-Soviet Armenia
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Emma Portugal; Sean Nonnenmacher – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Through the analysis of materials such as online articles, blogs, and radio broadcasts, this paper investigates linguistic purism toward Russian and English loanwords in the understudied context of post-Soviet Armenia. Our analysis finds that public commentators categorize potential loanwords as "borrowings" ([foreign characters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Russian, English, Linguistic Borrowing
Phonetic Loan, Graphic Borrowing, and Script-Mixing: Key to the Vitality of Written Cantonese in Hong Kong
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David C. S. Li; Wong Tak-sum – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This study aims at investigating how loanwords from Japanese and Korean are used in informal written Cantonese media discourse, including print and social media. Data from these media were collected from designated websites for 15?min every other day over a two-week period. The results show that loanwords from Korean, being written in a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sino Tibetan Languages, Pronunciation, Language Variation