| Autor: |
Nakijoba, Sarah, Kawalya, Deo |
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Journal of Humanities (1016-0728); 2024, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p7-33, 27p |
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Cross-linguistic studies on language contact have established that when pragmatic marker (PM) systems are in contact, three outcomes may occur: (i) the PM sets of the languages in contact may coexist, (ii) the PMs in contact may acquire differentiated meanings, and (iii) PMs from one language may be replaced wholly or partially by markers of another language. Using Luganda-English bilingual data of 190,580 words, this paper examines the contact between Luganda and English PMs to establish whether the outcomes reported in crosslinguistic studies are evident in the data at hand or not and whether there are any other observable outcomes peculiar to the Luganda-English data. The findings point to the coexistence between Luganda and English PMs and the partial replacement of some Luganda PMs by English functional equivalents. However, there was no evidence to support the outcome of the acquisition of differentiated meaning. In addition, the data points to the possibility of a new contact outcome, which we describe as calquing/loan translating. The analysis is informed by cross-linguistic findings and Blakemore's relevancetheoretic notion of procedural encoding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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