| Lemma | borrowing idiolect |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | language (inglese) |
| Rinvii | borrowing (inglese) donor (inglese) idiolect (inglese) model (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The idiolect (or language) which acquires something new in the process is the ‘borrowing idiolect’ (or language). Whenever two idiolects come into contact, one or both may be modified. In face-to-face communication, either speaker may imitate some feature of the other’s speech; when the contact is indirect, as in reading, the influence can of course pass only in one direction. The feature which is imitated is called the ‘model’; the idiolect (or language) in which the model occurs, or the speaker of that idiolect, is called the ‘donor’; the idiolect (or language) which acquires something new in the process is the ‘borrowing idiolect’ (or language). |