translingualism
English edit
Etymology edit
From translingual + -ism.
Noun edit
translingualism (usually uncountable, plural translingualisms)
- (linguistics, uncountable) The phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language.
- (linguistics, countable) A specific phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language, such as a term or symbol used in more than one language.
- 1990, Research in African Literatures, volume 21, number 3, page 84:
- This third approach can be illustrated by one of the most frequently-observed of Okara's translingualisms, the transposition into English of Ijo word-order.