Macaronic language

Macaronic language is the comic mixing of words and forms of different languages within a single text, in which the native language is saturated with distorted foreign words or foreign words are grammatically "domesticated" according to the laws of the native tongue. The name derives from the macaronic poetry of the Renaissance, which jokingly combined Latin with vernacular languages. Macaronic language creates a marked comic, parodic or satirical effect, often mocking the thoughtless aping of the foreign, affectation or linguistic illiteracy. In literature it serves as a means of characterisation — the exposure of a personage who groundlessly flaunts foreign words, becoming detached from their native soil. Macaronic language is closely linked to barbarisms and parody and is studied by stylistics in the aspect of the comic mixing of linguistic codes.