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

ISBN-13: 9783631783795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 522 str.

Henrik Gottlieb

Opis

Echoes of English, also known as Anglicisms, are now heard all over the world. They encompass a wide range of linguistic phenomena, all of which are discussed in this book. Against a backdrop of corpus-based studies of Anglicisms in Danish, the present English influence in Scandinavia is compared with that regarding Afrikaans in South Africa.

Spis treści

English dominance - Contact linguistics - Anglicisms - Pseudo-English - Germanisms - Minor languages - Borrowing - Loanwords - Code-switching - Domain loss - Translationese - Language change - Lexicography - Grammar - Dictionaries - Naming habits - Corpus studies - Denmark - Danish - Scandinavia - Afrikaans - South Africa

O autorze

Henrik Gottlieb is an associate professor of English at the University of Copenhagen. He holds an MA in English and Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Translation Studies. He has published widely on the English influence on minor languages, especially Danish, since 1999. In 2008, he lived and guest-lectured in South Africa.