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- Title
EXPANSIVE AND RESTRICTIVE USE OF LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE VARIETIES.
- Authors
KARDALESKA-RADOJKOVA, Ljubica
- Abstract
The concepts expansive and restrictive can be applied in both multilingual and monolingual settings. All language forms we use, regardless of the context (different languages or different varieties or forms within one language) are divided into a wide spectrum of functions between the two ends. The expansive forms are used when our aim is to expand the communication among wide number of potential interlocutors, while the restrictive forms are selected when we intend to limit the circle of potential interlocutors, to emphasize our peculiarity in some respects and define the invisible borders of one group in terms of its social, educational, geographical, ethnic or other types of background. Restrictive language form reduces communication to small number of speakers and potential interlocutors. That is the case with secret languages, as well as with social registers, language forms of varied age groups or the language of a family as an internal jargon. Every speaker has specific forms in his/her repertory reserved and recognizable only for communication with friends, with his/her generation, within the family etc. However, whether the function of one language will be regarded as expansive or restrictive depends on the specific context in which it is observed. Namely, for instance, in a multilingual context, Breton or Corsican can be regarded as restrictive when compared with the standard French, but in monolingual context in Corsican there can be restrictive forms (the language of the family, regional variety, Argot, varied age groups). The French living in the USA can use English in their working environment, while in their home they use French as a restrictive form when compared to English, although in their families they can use other forms of the language with restrictive role, but additionally the kids can use other restrictive forms to indicate they are different from their parents.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages; LINGUISTIC context; FRENCH language; ENGLISH language; AGE groups; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; FAMILY roles
- Publication
Vizione, 2023, Issue 40, p81
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article