Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other LanguagesJ. Rosenhouse, Rotem Kowner The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century, the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments, and the extent of its integration into twelve languages representing several language families. Many of these absorbing languages are studied here for the first time. |
Contents
List of Figures | 11 |
Is It Threatened by English? | 68 |
Trends and Determinants of English Borrowing | 82 |
Borrowing Ideology and Pragmatic Aspects | 121 |
The Case of English Loan | 145 |
colloquial Arabic | 152 |
The Modernisation Process and the Advent | 187 |
Hidden English in Texts and Society | 208 |
Cooking a Linguistic Chop Suey | 227 |
The Dialectic Relationships Between Westerness | 250 |
Features of Borrowing from English | 276 |
Bibliography | 296 |
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