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BL
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1029374
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b783744
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Globally speaking : : motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages /\ edited by Judith Rosenhouse and Rotem Kowner.
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| Publication Statement
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Clevedon, UK ;Buffalo [N.Y.] :: Multilingual Matters,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Multilingual matters series ;; 140
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1 online resource (xii, 337 pages)
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| ISBN
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1847690521
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: 6611878424
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: 9781847690524
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: 9786611878429
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1847690513
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9781847690517
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-325) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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| Abstract
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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 languages representing several language families.
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English language-- Globalization.
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English language-- Influence on foreign languages.
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Language and languages-- Foreign elements.
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English language-- Globalization.
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English language-- Influence on foreign languages.
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Language and languages-- Foreign elements.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- General.
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420.9
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PE1073.G563 2008eb
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Kowner, Rotem.
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Rosenhouse, J.
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