Alina M.Melnikova,

Donbas State Technical University

Some Issues on Linguodeviations

How our mind creates language? Where does it originate? In what way do the bulk of world nationalities manage to communicate achieving mutual understanding? The given issues are left to be discovered.

Norman Freezer, Ph.D. the prominent specialist on linguistic paleontology searched simple answers on these intricate questions. The natural language was the principal object of his speech analysis. Above all and in particular, he was deeply involved in his language work applying to archeology with the aim to interpret the language genesis.

Accordingly, the great efforts were provided to rehabilitate the special device imitating vocal abilities of Neanderthal man in order to indicate whether he had the same level of speech articulation as the modern human owns. However, speech is not considered to be equated to language itself. It is remarkable that the former is a physical activity while the latter is characterized as a certain psychological essence deeply sprouted in human mind. The speech can be used to express the language. In the same sense writing and gestures (i.e.: the sign language) as well as drums may be utilized as the relevant conductors for info transmission. There is no doubt that language is realized with the help of speech, nonetheless, the ability for speech articulation does not guarantee the availability of adequate language command as follows from the sample of people who have low mental abilities.

Therefore, linguistic paleontology is not quite competent to give proper contribution into the complex process of language investigation. Despite of it, the scholars of the “Societe de Linguistique de Paris” founded in 1865 claim that they are on the path of language truism. Due to the Society Regulations, its members must consider the historical and archeological aspects in their permanent research of language identity that has been working as an innate flash-like vehicle since the very occurrence of the first civilizations on Earth.

It should be stressed that language to a greater extent is an instinct rather than the result of individual achievement. The great number of ethnographers in their close cooperation with numerous linguistic societies support this theory and forge numerous social language analysis to prove the statement that “only language brings all nationalities together in the unique vivid culture”.

To draw a parallel, it may be stated that English and its varieties has become the basis for global communication between numerous quite different nationalities and promoted the appearance of the so-called universal English-speaking ethnical culture which for its turn is mainly expressed in quite variable language deviations.

The chain of observations stated above may be definitely confirmed within the context of the abnormal language varieties.

Black English Vernacular (BEV) or African-American Vernacular English

(AAVE) is referred to the particular language group defined as one of those that has become the consequent of close black-white speech relationships. This American dialect has obtained the definition that of language pathology in accordance with the fact that the forms spoken by black and white Americans have always been different, moreover the speech of black Americans was believed to be totally wrong.

Robert Hendrickson, the famous American linguist, one of the prominent specialists on abnormal language investigation, targets his attention to the words and numerous linguistic aspects that originate in the African languages and dialects of the black people. Hitherto Hendrickson has been deeply involved in the studying of the special sublanguage minority of Black American language called Gullah, which is spoken in the Southeastern part of the US (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida). Consequently, the enormous stock of new words such as goober (for peanut), okra, voodoo, mumbo jumbo, zombie, jukebox, boogie-woogie and even O.K., that have come into American English from Gullah, was brought to enrich American language culture. Since it’s known, Hendrickson's theory about the origin of a common O.K. sounds very believable: O.K. could originate in the Dogno o-kay, the Djabo o-ke, the Wolof waw-kay, the Mandigo on-ke, or the Western Fula eeiy-kay, all meaning "yes indeed", where Dogno, Djabo, Wolof, etc. are the names of African dialects.

To gain a deeper insight into the problem of language deviations and their influence on the pure English language standards, it is of importance to mention Singlish, a mishmash of English, Chinese dialects, Malay and Tamil that is spoken by everyone from office workers to housewives and students of Singapore. The essentially vital problem is that Singlish is characterized by the incorrect English grammar occurred as a result of language interaction against the background of utterly different cultures – English and Singaporean. Here are some typical examples of Singlish: “Go come back shopping already!”(I went shopping and have come back); “Aiyah! He catch no ball one!”(Oh! He doesn’t understand); “Don’t play play.” (Be serious).

The key fact must be singled out that a human himself, as we know and experience him today, lives to great extent, as an existential being, in and via the medium of language. Therefore, in this connection, the vital question arises: what kind of a language is evidently meant? In order to bring our problem nearer, body language must be also included into the multitudinous list of language deviations. It may safely be stated that in accordance with the motions of a person’s face, arms, and hands, there is no difficulty to indicate to what nationality he/she belongs to - “Russian”, “American”, “German”, “Italian”, etc. Even the manner in which different nationalities “count to ten” on their fingers is absolutely different: many Russians often start with the smallest, drawing the fingers in to a fist: one, two three, etc.; Americans begin with the index finger, count down to the small finger, and then the thumb comes last – but the hand starts with a fist, and the fingers are extended in counting,

To crown it all, all the language deviations stated, whether or no, are considered to be the integral parts of a special language culture reflecting the apparent feedback between the vehicle of speech flexibility – language and the true conductor of the language realization – culture, that are tightly interwoven in their solid linguo conglomerate.