| Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages Contributor(s): Rosenhouse, Judith (Editor), Kowner, Rotem (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1847690513 ISBN-13: 9781847690517 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $132.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 420.9 |
| LCCN: 2007040066 |
| Series: Multilingual Matters |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.4" (1.25 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |