Publications

Publication details [#61399]

Babel, Anna M. 2016. Affective motivations for borrowing: Performing local identity through loan phonology. Language & Communication 49 : 70–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | language contact | language transfer | loanword | phonology1

Language as a subject

Quechua | Spanish, Bolivian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Speakers of a Bolivian Spanish contact variety employ aspirates and ejectives, mainly on Quechua loanwords, borrowing, due to intense, lenghty contact, Quechua words and phonology aspects, to convey affective stances like affinity, humor, and anger, and for local identity-work.