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Publication details [#52881]

Rosenhouse, Judith and Rotem Kowner, eds. 2008. Globally Speaking. Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages. (Multilingual Matters). Multilingual Matters. 300 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
borrowing | ethnicity | lexicon | psycholinguistics | sociolinguistics
Language as a subject
Amharic | Arabic | Chinese, Taiwanese | Dutch | English | French | Hebrew | Hungarian | Icelandic | Japanese | Languages, Indian | Persian | Russian

Annotation

Employing a comparative, broad cross-cultural perspective, this volume explains the motives, processes and extent of current lexical borrowings from English into twelve languages representing various language families, including Dutch, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hebrew, Amharic, Persian, Arabic, Russian, Taiwan Chinese, Japanese, and several southern Indian languages.