Date: 02-Jun-2008 From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Globally Speaking: Rosenhouse, Kowner (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Globally Speaking
Subtitle: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages
Series Title: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2008
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
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.