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Hu, Peter. 2004. Adapting English into Chinese. English Today 20 (2) : 34–39.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | language of wider communication | language spread | language use

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article examines the mutual borrowing between English and Chinese, describes the techniques of borrowing words from English into Chinese, and states that the best approach for adopting foreign words is semantic transliteration.