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Title: | IDEOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF LINGUISTIC HYBRIDIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN BANGLADESH | Authors: | A R M MOSTAFIZAR RAHMAN | ORCID iD: | orcid.org/0000-0001-7962-7719 | Keywords: | language ideology, hybridism, purism, linguistic pollution, language evolution, globalization | Issue Date: | 2-Aug-2019 | Citation: | A R M MOSTAFIZAR RAHMAN (2019-08-02). IDEOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF LINGUISTIC HYBRIDIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN BANGLADESH. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Linguistic hybridization, particularly as practiced by young adults, is commonly framed by elite purists as linguistic pollution in Bangladesh. To better understand how this phenomenon is perceived by laypeople, this study investigates ideologies about hybridization via the conceptual frameworks of globalization and superdiversity entwined with nationalism, language policy, the linguistic market, and language ecology. Analyzing questionnaire and interview data, the thesis finds that, despite prevalent puristic ideologies in media discourse, hybridization of Bangla is largely seen as a commonplace linguistic practice that is not new, aberrant, or taboo and is associated with the natural evolution of Bangla. Hybridization as a norm and practice is argued to thrive and become ideologically rationalized among speakers in multilingual ecologies, even in settings where linguistic purism holds considerable institutional influence. The phenomenon of hybridization, however, must be understood in light of the spatiotemporal locatedness of speakers and the socio-historical dynamics of a community’s linguistic ecology. | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/167806 |
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