Anglicisms in German : : Borrowing, Lexical Productivity, and Written Codeswitching /

Anglicisms in German : : Borrowing, Lexical Productivity, and Written Codeswitching / / Alexander Onysko.

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The book offers a detailed account of English influence on German based on a large scale corpus analysis of the newsmagazine ‘Der Spiegel’. The study is structured into three parts covering fundamental questions and as of yet unsolved and disputed issues in the domain of anglicism research and langu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Onysko, Alexander,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2007
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Linguistik – Impulse & Tendenzen , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Symbols and Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1. English as a source of language influence in German
  • PART I: Integrating Theories and Terminology: Borrowing, Codeswitching, Lexical Productivity, and Interference as Types of Anglicisms in German
  • Overview – What is an anglicism?
  • 2. Loan meaning and loan formation
  • 3. Borrowing, codeswitching, and anglicism: different approaches to definition
  • 4. Pseudo anglicisms and hybrid anglicisms
  • 5. Diachronic aspects of anglicisms in German: assimilation and etymology
  • 6. Modelling transmission from SL to RL
  • PART II: Corpus, Methods, and Frequency of Anglicisms
  • Overview – Questions of research
  • 7. Corpus and methods
  • 8. The quantitative impact of anglicisms
  • PART III: Types and Integration of Anglicisms: Structural Patterns, Word Formational Productivity, and Codeswitching
  • Overview – Convergence and divergence of anglicisms
  • 9. Salient morphological features of nominal anglicisms: gender, plural, and genitive case
  • 10. Lexical productivity and inflectional integration of anglicisms
  • 11. Codeswitching and phrasal anglicisms
  • 12. Conclusion – The impact of anglicisms and its implications for the future of German
  • 13. Appendices
  • 14. References
  • Subject index
  • Anglicism Index

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