Norme vir huidiglik
Literator
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Norme vir huidiglik | |
| Creator | van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. | |
| Description | Norms of huidiglik. In Afrikaans, huidiglik is a truly Janus-faced word: it is being used with high frequency in especially spoken language, while at the same time being one of the biggest language pet-peeves of language practitioners (and even ordinary speakers of Afrikaans). When asked why huidiglikshould be avoided, these language practitioners and language users often cannot provide any reasoning about it. A comprehensive literature review also reveals that linguists and language practitioners often give contradictory, or even linguistically incorrect reasons for why huidiglik is supposedly not acceptable in (standard) Afrikaans. By comparing a variety of normative grammaticographic sources (such as reference guides and prescriptive grammars), this article shows that: (1) huidiglik originated, on a balance of probability, in the 1970s in the South African Parliament; and (2) apart from stylistic preferences (e.g. that it sounds pretentious, feigned and affectatious), none of the linguistic arguments against huidiglik holds water. In a supplementary article in this issue of the journal it is being illustrated that huidiglik is alive and well in written (Standard) Afrikaans. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2018-09-27 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v39i2.1526 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 39, No 2 (2018); 10 pages Literator; Vol 39, No 2 (2018); 10 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1526/2725
https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1526/2724
https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1526/2726
https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1526/2715
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