User:Txrharvey/mock-language

Definition
When using mock language, the speaker is showing their 'cosmopolitanism' or global knowledge. It is a borrowing of words from different languages and using them in your context. In contrast with usages of languages that effectively borrow terms, mock language does not show awareness of the cultural or social meanings behind the words spoken.

Extraneous - relegate to "effects of mock language?"
For example, an American speaker who uses mock language is unintentionally indexing a language ideology that all Americans should speak English or that other languages are secondary in the US. Using words outside the speaker's native language neglects context of the conversion, meaning of the word or phrase, or conceptual knowledge including historical injustices to the borrowed language, culture, and physical surroundings.

One dominant language ideology is that English should be the only language spoken in the United States, establishing English as a hegemonic language. This hegemony creates a dominance of the hegemonic group over the ones that do not conform. The usage of mock language reinforces this, as it takes language and culture out of context to show the speaker's worldly knowledge, but does not celebrate or intellectually use the language. This ideology is actually maintaining the subordinate status of the other languages used as the language speakers in that community are expected to speak English and not in a mocking way.