Travelling terms and local innovations: The tsotsitaal of the North West province, South Africa
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Travelling terms and local innovations: The tsotsitaal of the North West province, South Africa Rondreisende terme en plaaslike vernuwing: Die tsotsitaal van die Noordwesprovinsie, Suid-Afrika | |
| Creator | Ditsele, Thabo Hurst, Ellen | |
| Description | This article focuses on the theme of linguistic innovation and expands on recent studies of the South African linguistic phenomenon tsotsitaal to show that it has travelled from its epicentre of Gauteng province into the North West province (henceforth North West), where it uses Setswana as its Matrix Language because it is the dominant language in the North West. Data were gathered from the North West’s three largest cities, namely, Rustenburg, Klerksdorp and Potchefstroom. The article presents examples of tsotsitaal spoken in the three cities and analyses its linguistic structure and lexical items. The significance of this tsotsitaal study is that it is the first to be conducted exclusively amongst first language (L1) Setswana speakers in an environment where the language is the most dominant – the North West. The study confirms previous literature which describes the phenomenon as a register of the urban form. It furthermore suggests that new lexical innovations at a local level are often drawn from the local base language, in this case Setswana, because the local language offers the best opportunities for semantic shift and multiple meanings. Hierdie artikel fokus op die tema van taalvernuwing en brei onlangse studies van die Suid-Afrikaanse taalverskynsel bekend as tsotsitaal uit, om aan te dui dat dit vanaf sy episentrum in die Gauteng-provinsie oorbeweeg het na die Noordwesprovinsie (voortaan Noordwes), waar Setswana as die Matrikstaal dien omdat dit die dominante taal in Noordwes is. Data is by Noordwes se drie grootste stede, naamlik Rustenburg, Klerksdorp en Potchefstroom, versamel. Die artikel bied voorbeelde van tsotsitaal soos dit in dié drie stede gepraat word en analiseer die taalstruktuur en leksikale items daarvan. Die belang van hierdie studie van tsotsitaal lê in die feit dat dit die eerste van sy soort is wat uitsluitlik onder eerstetaalsprekers (T1) van Setswana uitgevoer is in ’n omgewing (Noordwes) waar dit die heersende taal is. Die studie bevestig vorige navorsing, wat die fenomeen as ’n register van die stedelike vorm beskryf. Dit suggereer voorts dat nuwe leksikale vernuwings op plaaslike vlak dikwels aan die plaaslike basistaal, in hierdie geval Setswana, ontleen word, aangesien die plaaslike taal die beste geleentheid bied vir semantiese verskuiwing en meervoudige betekenisse. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-11-04 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v37i2.1274 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 37, No 2 (2016); 8 pages Literator; Vol 37, No 2 (2016); 8 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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