Globally Speaking : : Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages /

Globally Speaking : : Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages / / ed. by Judith Rosenhouse, Rotem Kowner.

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This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into tw...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ben-Rafael, Miriam,
Daliot-Bul, Michal,
De Vries, Herman J.,
Fisherman, Haya,
Gombos-Sziklainé, Zsuzsanna,
Kowner, Rotem,
Kurzon, Dennis,
Lai, Sufen Sophia,
Rosenhouse, Judith,
Sapir, Yair,
Shahvar, Soli,
Sturcz, Zoltán,
Teferra, Anbessa,
Yelenevskaya, Maria,
Zuckermann, Ghil‘Ad,
HerausgeberIn:
Kowner, Rotem,
Rosenhouse, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Multilingual Matters
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Hegemony of English and Determinants of Borrowing from Its Vocabulary
  • 2. Icelandic: Phonosemantic Matching
  • 3. French: Tradition versus Innovation as Reflected in English Borrowings
  • 4. Dutch: Is It Threatened by English?
  • 5. Hungarian: Trends and Determinants of English Borrowing in a Market Economy Newcomer
  • 6. Russian: From Socialist Realism to Reality Show
  • 7. Hebrew: Borrowing Ideology and Pragmatic Aspects in a Modern(ised) Language
  • 8. Colloquial Arabic (in Israel): The Case of English Loan Words in a Minority Language with Diglossia
  • 9. Amharic: Political and Social Effects on English Loan Words
  • 10. Farsi: The Modernisation Process and the Advent of English
  • 11. Indian Languages: Hidden English in Texts and Society
  • 12. Chinese in Taiwan: Cooking a Linguistic Chop Suey and Embracing English
  • 13. Japanese: The Dialectic Relationships Between ‘Westerness’ and ‘Japaneseness’ as Reflected in English Loan Words
  • 14. Conclusion: Features of Borrowing from English in 12 Languages
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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