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Ebel, Kerstin. 2003. Can you paperback a pocketbook? Multilingua 22 (2) : 113–132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | language use | loanword | term coordination

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British | German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper explores the difference between the terms ‘pocketbook’ and ‘paperback’ and their use in American and British English and in German. Both are discussed in the light of the concept of semantic pseudo-loans.