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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Multilingual MattersPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781847690517
  • 9781847690524
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420.9 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1073 .G563 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese, Taiwan Chinese, and several languages spoken in southern India. Some of these languages are studied here in the context of borrowing for the first time ever. All in all, this volume suggests that the English lexical 'invasion', as it is often referred to, is a natural and inevitable process. It is driven by psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-historical factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated with ethnic and linguistic diversity.
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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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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 twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese, Taiwan Chinese, and several languages spoken in southern India. Some of these languages are studied here in the context of borrowing for the first time ever. All in all, this volume suggests that the English lexical 'invasion', as it is often referred to, is a natural and inevitable process. It is driven by psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-historical factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated with ethnic and linguistic diversity.

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