Émigrés : French words that turned English /
"This is a study of French words and phrases which, untranslated, have entered the English lexicon. Historians calculate that English, since 1500, has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. While it has naturalized many of these words, some have visibly ret...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2020.
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Edición: | 1st. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- Part I. Mixings: 1. French À la Mode
- 2. Modes of English
- 3. Creolizing Keywords
- Part II. Migrations: 4. Naïveté
- 5. Ennui
- 6. Caprice
- Migrants in Our Midst
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index.