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Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages

by Judith Rosenhouse
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781847690517
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited
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  • Pages: 352
  • Original Price: GBP 119.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 567 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

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.

Kowner, Rotem: -

Kowner is an Israeli Japanologist who focuses on Japanese attitudes and response to foreign culture, the West in particular, in modern times. Currently he serves as the chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Haifa.

Rosenhouse, Judith: -

For almost a decade, Prof. Judith Rosenhouse and Prof. Rotem Kowner have led a multi-member research project on the motives for borrowing foreign lexicon, culminating with the publication of this book. Rosenhouse is a noted Israeli linguist specialized in Arabic and Hebrew, who recently retired from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and has joined Swantech Ltd.

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