translingualism

English

Etymology

From translingual +‎ -ism.

Noun

translingualism (usually uncountable, plural translingualisms)

  1. (linguistics, uncountable) The phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language.
  2. (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.
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