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Globally Speaking - 9781847690517

Un libro in lingua di Rosenhouse Judith (EDT) Kowner Rotem (EDT) edito da Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2008

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Some regard English as an invasive species. Others believe the only practical thing to do about the intrusion of English is to borrow more and use it more. However, the contributors of these 14 papers mostly agree that the invasion of English is a natural and inevitable process driven by a variety of factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated not with aggression but with the existence of ethnic and linguistic diversity. They describe the hegemony of English and the reasons why other languages borrow from its vocabulary, then describe specific phenomena in Icelandic, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Hebrew, colloquial Arabic as used in Israel, Amharic, Farsi, Indian languages, Chinese in Taiwan, and Japanese. The collection closes with a comparative survey of borrowing from English. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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