translingualism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A specific phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language, such as a term or symbol used in more than one language.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "Essentially, translingualism questions the idea that only one type of English is acceptable in academic writing."
- "The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm."
- "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."
Etymology
From translingual + -ism.