What is a language error? : A discussion
Khachaturyan, M., Kuteeva, M., Vetchinnikova, S., Norrman, G., & Leontjev, D. (2022). What is a language error? : A discussion. Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies, 16(3), 102-127. https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.114746
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Why are we so afraid of making mistakes? Students in language classes, speakers of non-standard varieties, professionals working abroad – we all share the anxiety of dropping the ball. But where does this anxiety come from? Why do we perceive certain linguistic features as errors in the first place? Is there any inherent faultiness in such features, or is a language error arbitrary? And if it is arbitrary, are errors less real? In this discussion, Maria Khachaturyan, Maria Kuteeva and Svetlana Vetchinnikova zoom in on the social life of variation in language and its uneasy relationship with our normative ideas. After that, Gunnar Norrman and Dmitri Leontjev give their comments. The discussion closes with replies by the first three authors.
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