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Echoes of English: Anglicisms in Minor Speech Communities - With Special Focus on Danish and Afrikaans

Echoes of English: Anglicisms in Minor Speech Communities - With Special Focus on Danish and Afrikaans

Hardcover

Series: Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Book 15

GermanLinguistics

ISBN10: 3631783795
ISBN13: 9783631783795
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 522
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

In today's world, the English language exerts an unprecedented influence internationally, and its echoes are present in almost all languages. These echoes, also known as Anglicisms, are no longer limited to English-sounding loanwords. The English impact includes a wide range of linguistic phenomena, all of which are discussed in this book, presenting a taxonomy accommodating all types of linguistic outcome of contact with English. While the outlook remains international, the focus is on Danish and Afrikaans, two Germanic languages spoken in societies with very different histories involving English. A number of chapters present diachronic corpus studies showing that the English influence on Danish in the 21st century resembles the impact felt by Afrikaans speakers already in the 20th century.

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