الاكاديمية للدراسات الاجتماعية و الانسانية
Volume 14, Numéro 4, Pages 3-11
2022-06-17

Hybrid Algerianized English: Case Of Master Two Linguistics Efl Students Of Tiaret University

Authors : Chetouane Djihad . Bouhania Bachir .

Abstract

The field of contact linguistics has gained a considerable amount of attention from researchers in the field during the last few decades. As matter of fact, the contact of languages results from the co-existence of many codes in one setting. This phenomenon leads to different linguistic changes that touches all aspects of the codes involved. This article at hand studies the tackled case which is between Algerian Arabic and English that is used among Master two Linguistics (EFLs) at the university of Tiaret. Additionally, it aims at revealing how the hybrid produced entity is structured. As an attempt to reach valuable results, a questionnaire was distributed to 60 students of Master two of the same specialty (linguistics). The findings exposed that the formed hybrid variety is a mixture of English words with Algerian Arabic affixes that molded a new entity. This latter is widely spread among the participants and all the students of English department.

Keywords

Multilingualism ; Language Contact ; Linguistic Hybridity ; Process of Hybridization