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Сашко-lect: The translanguaged grammar of a hyper multilingual global nomad. Part 3 – Contact languages and translanguaging

Publication date: 02.08.2021

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2021, Volume 138, Issue 3, pp. 119 - 133

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.21.011.13705

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Alexander Andrason
Stellenbosch University, RPA; Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-9824 Orcid
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Сашко-lect: The translanguaged grammar of a hyper multilingual global nomad. Part 3 – Contact languages and translanguaging

Abstract

This study examines the idiolect of Сашко – a hyper-multilingual global nomad whose language repertoire draws on forty languages, ten of which he speaks with native or native-like proficiency. By analyzing grammatical and lexical features typifying Сашко’s translanguaging practices (code-switches, code-borrowings, and code-mixes), as documented in the corpus of reflexive notes that span the last twenty-five years, the author designs Сашко’s translanguaged grammar. Instead of being a passive additive pluralization of separated, autonomous, and static monolects, Сашко’s grammar emerges as a deeply orchestrated, unitary, and dynamic strategy. From Сашко’s perspective, this grammar constitutes a tool to express his rebellious and defiant identity; a tool that – while aiming to combat Western mono-culturalisms, compartmented multilingualisms, and nationalisms – ultimately leads to Сашко’s linguistic and cultural homelessness. This paper – the last in a series of three articles – is dedicated to Сашко’s mixed languages and translanguaged grammar typifying Сашко-lect in its integrity.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2021, Volume 138, Issue 3, pp. 119 - 133

Article type: Original article

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Сашко-lect: The translanguaged grammar of a hyper multilingual global nomad. Part 3 – Contact languages and translanguaging

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Сашко-lect: The translanguaged grammar of a hyper multilingual global nomad. Part 3 – Contact languages and translanguaging

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-9824

Alexander Andrason
Stellenbosch University, RPA; Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-9824 Orcid
All publications →

Stellenbosch University, RPA; Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa

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