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Does the author not know of the terms “creole” and “pidgin”? Seems like it would be valuable to contrast what they call “language hybrid” with these two already
by SOLAR_FIELDS 2y ago
Does the author not know of the terms “creole” and “pidgin”? Seems like it would be valuable to contrast what they call “language hybrid” with these two already existing linguistics terms that share a lot of overlap with their inventions, especially when the author just seems to be inventing terms out of thin air like translanguaging and Nuyurico.
Honestly the piece reads like some ethnoculturologist is trying to reinvent linguistics concepts that have been common knowledge in that field for decades.
- zamadatix 2y agoOn the chance I'm not missing a pun/sarcasm: hybrid language, translanguaging, and Nuyorico are all also existing linguistics terms in academia the same as creole and pidgin. Comparisons are helpful though so a hybrid language is different than a creole/pidgin in that it skips the pidgin stage and the speakers know both languages rather than it being a new primary language grown out of a pidgin as seen in a creole. For a news piece rather than an academic journal I thought the author did alright.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoI did not know this and this is great info that should have been included in the article IMO
- WrongAssumption 2y agoHybrid language is an existing linguistic term.