The Role of Popular Culture in Language Borrowing

by Marianne Broadwater

This work proposes that popular culture often derives from the privileged upper classes and that popular culture established by the elite has played an important role in linguistic exchange throughout history between French and English. Focusing on the time periods 1066 AD to 1500 AD and the twentieth and twenty first centuries, it describes the manner of exchange and development of French and English lexicons and analyzes in detail the histories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3639051688
• ISBN13: 9783639051681
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"