Globally speaking : motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages /: motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Judith Rosenhouse and Rotem Kowner.
• Other Names: Rosenhouse, J; Kowner, Rotem
• Contents: Introduction 1. The Hegemony of English and Determinants of Borrowing from its Vocabulary - Rotem Kowner and Judith Rosenhouse 2. Icelandic: Phono-Semantic Matching - Yair Sapir and Ghil’ad Zuckermann 3. French: Tradition vs. Innovation as Reflected in English Borrowings - Miriam Ben-Rafael 4. Dutch: Is It Threatened by English? - Herman J. De Vries Jr. 5. Hungarian: Trends and Determinants of English Borrowing in a Market Economy Newcomer - Zsuzsa Sziklain Gombos, Zoltán Sturcz with Judith Rosenhouse and Rotem Kowner 6. Russian: From Social Realism to Reality Show - Maria Yelenevskaya 7. Hebrew: Borrowing Ideology and Pragmatic Aspects in a Modern(ized) Language - Judith Rosenhouse and Haya Fisherman 8. Colloquial Arabic (in Israel): The Case of English Loanwords in a Minority Language with Diglossia - Judith Rosenhouse 9. Amharic: Political and Social Effects on English Loanwords - Anbessa Teferra 10. Farsi: The Process of Modernization and the Advent of English - Soli Shahvar 11. Indian Languages: Hidden English in Texts and Society - Dennis Kurzon 12. Chinese in Taiwan: Cooking a Linguistic Chop Suey and Embracing English - Sufen Sophia Lai 13. Japanese: The Dialectic Relationships between 'Westerness' and 'Japaneseness' as Reflected in English Loanwords - Rotem Kowner and Michal Daliot-Bul 14. Conclusion: Features of Borrowing from English in Twelve Languages - Judith Rosenhouse and Rotem Kowner Contributors Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Subjects: 420.9; English language -- Influence on foreign languages; Language and languages -- Foreign elements; English language -- Globalization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783091539; 1783091533
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