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Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages

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Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages - Rosenhouse, Judith (Editor), and Kowner, Rotem (Editor)
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The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century, the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments, and the extent of its integration into twelve languages representing several language families. Many of these absorbing languages are studied here for the first time.

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Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages 2008, Multilingual Matters Limited, Bristol

ISBN-13: 9781847690517

Hardcover