Norme vir huidiglik
| Autor: | G.B. van Huyssteen |
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| Jazyk: | afrikánština |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory Parliament media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:PL8000-8844 Language and Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences grammaticography Rule-based machine translation morphology media_common 060201 languages & linguistics Balance (metaphysics) 06 humanities and the arts huidiglik Variety (linguistics) constructionalisation Linguistics lcsh:African languages and literature 0602 languages and literature Anglicism Normative Afrikaans 0305 other medical science Psychology prescriptivism Word (computer architecture) huidig Spoken language |
| Zdroj: | Literator, Vol 39, Iss 2, Pp e1-e10 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2219-8237 0258-2279 |
| Popis: | Norms of huidiglik. In Afrikaans, huidiglik is a truly Janus-faced word: it is being used with high frequency in especially spoken language, while at the same time being one of the biggest language pet-peeves of language practitioners (and even ordinary speakers of Afrikaans). When asked why huidiglik should be avoided, these language practitioners and language users often cannot provide any reasoning about it. A comprehensive literature review also reveals that linguists and language practitioners often give contradictory, or even linguistically incorrect reasons for why huidiglik is supposedly not acceptable in (standard) Afrikaans. By comparing a variety of normative grammaticographic sources (such as reference guides and prescriptive grammars), this article shows that: (1) huidiglik originated, on a balance of probability, in the 1970s in the South African Parliament; and (2) apart from stylistic preferences (e.g. that it sounds pretentious, feigned and affectatious), none of the linguistic arguments against huidiglik holds water. In a supplementary article in this issue of the journal it is being illustrated that huidiglik is alive and well in written (Standard) Afrikaans. |
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