TY - BOOK ID - 78146067 TI - Globally Speaking AU - Ben-Rafael, Miriam AU - Daliot-Bul, Michal AU - De Vries, Herman J AU - Fisherman, Haya AU - Gombos-Sziklainé, Zsuzsanna AU - Kowner, Rotem AU - Kurzon, Dennis AU - Lai, Sufen Sophia AU - Rosenhouse, Judith AU - Shahvar, Soli AU - Sturcz, Zoltán AU - Teferra, Anbessa AU - Yelenevskaya, Maria AU - Zuckermann, Ghil'ad AU - Sapir, Yair PY - 2008 SN - 1783091533 1281878421 9786611878429 1847690521 9781847690524 6611878424 1847690513 9781847690517 PB - Bristol Blue Ridge Summit DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Language and languages KW - Influence of English on foreign languages KW - Influence on foreign languages. KW - Foreign elements. KW - Globalization. KW - Globalization KW - Influence on foreign languages KW - Foreign elements KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78146067 AB - This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese, Taiwan Chinese, and several languages spoken in southern India. Some of these languages are studied here in the context of borrowing for the first time ever. All in all, this volume suggests that the English lexical 'invasion', as it is often referred to, is a natural and inevitable process. It is driven by psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-historical factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated with ethnic and linguistic diversity. ER -