Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847690513
• ISBN13: 9781847690517
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.4"