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Globally speaking : motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages /
Accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a cross-cultural perspective. This volume investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve lang...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
Multilingual Matters,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Multilingual matters (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Hegemony of English and Determinants of Borrowing from Its Vocabulary; Chapter 2 Icelandic: Phonosemantic Matching; Chapter 3 French: Tradition versus Innovation as Reflected in English Borrowings; Chapter 4 Dutch: Is It Threatened by English?; Chapter 5 Hungarian: Trends and Determinants of English Borrowing in a Market Economy Newcomer; Chapter 6 Russian: From Socialist Realism to Reality Show; Chapter 7 Hebrew: Borrowing Ideology and Pragmatic Aspects in a Modern(ised) Language.
- Chapter 8 Colloquial Arabic (in Israel): The Case of English Loan Words in a Minority Language with DiglossiaChapter 9 Amharic: Political and Social Effects on English Loan Words; Chapter 10 Farsi: The Modernisation Process and the Advent of English; Chapter 11 Indian Languages: Hidden English in Texts and Society; Chapter 12 Chinese in Taiwan: Cooking a Linguistic Chop Suey and Embracing English; Chapter 13 Japanese: The Dialectic Relationships Between.