supra-lexical
the phenomenon in spoken discourse where-in the language and its given lexicon is switched/replaced (french to english, e.g.), while the idiom, point of view and paradigm unique to the first language is preserved.
- "oh they're speaking french".
-"c'mon that's english.. don't go cheap on that. it's supra-lexical english is what that is. the preservation of a unique idiom, shared p.o.v. or more generally, paradigm."
-"c'mon that's english.. don't go cheap on that. it's supra-lexical english is what that is. the preservation of a unique idiom, shared p.o.v. or more generally, paradigm."