Ways of the World's Words: Language Contact in the Age of Globalization <br>
Series Title: Linguistic Insights - Volume 135 <br>
Published: 2011 <br>
Publisher: Peter Lang AG<br>
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Author: Zsuzsa Hoffmann <br>
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Abstract:<br><br>
This book investigates lexical borrowing processes of our era in a <br>sociolinguistic context. Innovatively, it seeks to examine language contact <br>in a comprehensive way, taking into account socio- and psycholinguistic <br>
aspects as well as implications for language politics. <br> <br>As the sociolinguistic focus is primary, the volume also discusses how <br>technology influences languages and to what extent it creates new <br>conditions for language contact. As a result, it is proposed that the term <br>
language contact needs to be reevaluated, since the context of <br>globalization has changed its very essence. <br> <br>As the increase in the importance of English has been the most significant <br>global geolinguistic event in the past fifty years, the role of English as <br>
an international lingua franca in modern borrowing is analyzed in detail. <br>Two case studies are also given, one on the role of English in the EU and <br>another on the linguistic situation of multilingual Switzerland. The <br>
characteristic features of lexical borrowing are illustrated in a complex <br>way on linguistic material of a total of over 5000 recent loans in English, <br>Spanish, German and Hungarian. <br> <br> <br>Contents: English as a global language/lingua franca - The presence of <br>
English in the world - The influence of English in various domains of life <br>- International English as a new variety - The linguistic situation of the <br>European Union: international and intranational communication - Language <br>
contact - Societal bi- and multilingualism vs. diglossia - Phonological, <br>grammatical, semantic, lexical transfer - The situation of English in <br>multilingual Switzerland - Communication between the linguistic regions of <br>
Switzerland - The analysis of recent borrowings and transfer strategies in <br>English, Spanish, German and Hungarian. <br> <br>Zsuzsa Hoffmann is a linguist and language teacher with an MA (English and <br>German Linguistics and Literature, Hungarian Linguistics) and a PhD <br>
(English Linguistics) from the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Her <br>research focuses on sociolinguistics and language contact, more <br>specifically, borrowing processes. <br><br><a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-4257.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-4257.html</a><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br>
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