Globally Speaking

Globally Speaking

Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages

by J. Rosenhouse, Rotem Kowner

337 pages· 2008· ISBN 9781847690517
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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.

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