Language Loyalty and Language Purity in a Language Contact Situation: South Australian Czech

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Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-08-29 DOI:10.1353/jsl.2021.0000

Chloe Castle

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Abstract:This paper is a parallel study to “Czeching Out a Language Contact Situation: Grammatical Replication and Shift in South Australian Czech” (Castle forthcoming) and investigates the reasons why grammatical borrowing and attrition processes occur within the South Australian Czech community. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with six participants, yielding results including reports of cognitive pressure, structural influence and similarity, and outside societal pressure to speak English. Utilizing Thomason and Kaufman’s (1988) framework, it was found that Czech Australian participant speech was marked by characteristics placing it at level three on the borrowing scale: function words and sentence structure are borrowed from English, which correlates with participant experience with a more intense level of contact and social pressure from the larger Australian majority. Additionally, “need” (van Coetsem 2000: 215), comprising social pressure, structural similarity, and cognitive pressure, is the key factor in grammatical borrowing, transfer, and attrition processes in the Czech South Australian community.

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语言接触情境下的语言忠诚与语言纯粹性：南澳捷克语

摘要：本文与《Czeching Out a Language Contact Situation:Grammal Replication and Shift in South Australian Czech》（Castle即将出版）进行了平行研究，并探讨了语法借用和损耗过程在南澳大利亚捷克语社区中发生的原因。对六名参与者进行了深入的定性访谈，结果包括认知压力、结构影响和相似性以及说英语的外部社会压力的报告。利用Thomason和Kaufman（1988）的框架，研究发现，捷克-澳大利亚参与者的言语具有在借用量表上处于第三级的特征：虚词和句子结构是从英语中借用的，这与参与者的经历相关，参与者的接触和社会压力更为强烈，来自大多数澳大利亚人。此外，“需要”（van Coetsem 2000:215），包括社会压力、结构相似性和认知压力，是捷克-南澳大利亚社区语法借用、迁移和消耗过程的关键因素。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Slavic Linguistics, or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists. Published papers deal with any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Slavic linguistics – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics – which raises substantive problems of broad theoretical concern or proposes significant descriptive generalizations. Comparative studies and formal analyses are also published. Different theoretical orientations are represented in the journal. One volume (two issues) is published per year, ca. 360 pp.