Borrowing: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar

by Shana Poplack

Book Overview

Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another.
This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the source: bilingual speakers in their social context. Building on more than three decades of original research based on vast quantities of spontaneous performance data and a highly ramified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190256370
• ISBN13: 9780190256371
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"