Through the Cognitive Looking Glass: Studying Bilingual Wordplay in Public Signage

Knospe, Sebastian; Onysko, Alexander; Goth, Maik

doi:10.1515/9783110465600-011

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“…These bridges can transcend hypostasized language boundaries and connect linguistic elements from different tongues. " Examples of bilingual puns are given in (10), which is from Stefanowitsch (2002), and (11) from Knospe (2016).…”

Section: Translanguaging and Code-switchingmentioning

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Translanguaging

Treffers-Daller

2024

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Since the launch of the term translanguaging in 1994, the multiple discursive practices that are grouped under this label have been explored in over 3000 papers, covering a variety of contexts, both within and outside education. While the term has clearly resonated with researchers and practitioners, here it is argued that it is unclear what it means exactly, because there are no diagnostic criteria specifying what it is. Extensive criticism has also been put forward in the academic literature, showing that central claims are untenable in the face of overwhelming counter-evidence from a range of fields, including studies on code-switching, bilingual education, bilingual first language acquisition, language contact and language processing. However, translanguaging can become a useful instrument for researchers and practitioners if the concept is narrowed down to what it was coined for, namely pedagogical practices that are beneficial for multilingual learners. In order for this to happen, clear diagnostic criteria need to be provided for the identification of translanguaging, and research evidence from neuroscientific, structural, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic studies on multilingualism needs to be integrated into its conceptualization.

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Section: Translanguaging and Code-switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translanguaging

Treffers-Daller

2024

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Processes of Language Contact in English Influence on German

Onysko¹

2019

English in the German-Speaking World

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Anglicismos coloquiales en la toponimia española

Lillo

2022

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English is the source of many of the colloquial, unofficial names we use for towns, cities, regions and the like in Spain today. Yet, due to the special (some might even say marginal) linguistic status of proper names and the ever-changing, fluid nature of informal Spanish, the importance and extent of this particular kind of influence of English on the Spanish lexicon have gone unnoticed in studies on Anglicisms. Based on a corpus of European Spanish tweets containing colloquial alternatives for traditional place names, this article examines some two hundred unconventional toponyms borrowed from or somehow inspired by English. Not surprisingly, only a few of these toponyms qualify as genuine Anglicisms. Most are faux-English pronunciations, spellings or names translated, often quite badly, from Spanish. The inherent oddity and humour of these loanwords, be they authentic or faux, hinge on an incongruity between their anglicised forms and the cultural affiliation of their referents and serve to create a sense of social closeness between participants in conversation.

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Through the Cognitive Looking Glass: Studying Bilingual Wordplay in Public Signage

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Processes of Language Contact in English Influence on German

Anglicismos coloquiales en la toponimia española

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