Borrowing or code-switching? Traces of community norms in Vietnamese-English speech

dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Li
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-21T23:14:58Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T11:35:19Z
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the use of kin terms in a corpus of Vietnamese–English bilingual spontaneous conversation. While the corpus features a range of single Vietnamese lexical items in otherwise English discourse, kin terms, as in the example below, are overwhelmingly the most frequent (accounting for 84%, 164/196, of single Vietnamese words in an English context). The study puts forward an empirical attempt at determining whether such items should be considered code-switches or borrowings, and the role that pragmatic norms play in shaping this linguistic behaviour. Discourse distribution of the kin terms in terms of person reference and syntactic role are used as cross-language ‘conflict sites’, to determine the level of integration of such items as a test of their status as code-switches or borrowings. This reveals that the distribution of Vietnamese kin terms in an otherwise English context mirrors that of Vietnamese kin terms in monolingual Vietnamese, and is distinct from that of English kin terms. This measure of integration suggests that these may be single-word code-switches. Nonetheless, the high frequency of use and their diffusion across the community are suggestive of borrowings. Follow-up interviews with the participants reveal specific community norms that underlie the use of these terms, namely as a linguistic resource to retain, promote and conform to community cultural practice. While the paper acknowledges the difficulty in determining the exact status of these forms based on existing criteria, it demonstrates how judicious application of empirical methodology enables us to pinpoint such strategies in studying language in contact.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0726-8602en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/251110
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.rights© 2018 The Australian Linguistic Societyen_AU
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Linguisticsen_AU
dc.subjectCode-switchingen_AU
dc.subjectBorrowingen_AU
dc.subjectBilingualismen_AU
dc.subjectVietnameseen_AU
dc.subjectKin Termsen_AU
dc.subjectAddress Termsen_AU
dc.subjectConflict Siteen_AU
dc.titleBorrowing or code-switching? Traces of community norms in Vietnamese-English speechen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage466en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage443en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationNguyen, Li, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidNguyen, Li, u4441263en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor200401 - Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen_AU
local.identifier.absseo950203 - Languages and Literatureen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB2794en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume38en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/07268602.2018.1510727en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85054711843
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000451746600001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu3102795en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.routledge.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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