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Lexical Borrowings and Adaptations of Anglicism

open access: yesThe International Journal of Applied Language Studies and Culture, 2023
Lexical borrowings, or the adoption of words from one language into another, are a common phenomenon in language evolution. One language that has had a significant impact on the lexicon of other languages is English, particularly through the use of Anglicism.
Isa Spahiu, Zarije Nuredini
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Zapożyczenia w tekstach specjalistycznych – klasyfikacja i problemy teoretyczne

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2017
Borrowing in texts for special purposes – classification and theoretical problems This paper discusses the issue of borrowing in texts for special purposes, Foreign elements in LSP texts are classified into terminological loanwords, non-terminological ...
Mariusz Górnicz
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Indigenization of Pakistani English in Kanza Javed’s Ashes, Wine and Dust

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education
This article explores the indigenization of English in Pakistan in Kanza Javed’s English novel ‘Ashes, Wine and Dust’. This exploratory and interpretative research employed a close reading of the novel to analyse lexical borrowing in Pakistani English ...
Maryam Arshad   +3 more
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Lexical borrowing by Khoekhoegowab from Cape Dutch and Afrikaans

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2015
The present article instantiates types of lexical borrowing from Afrikaans and Dutch in Namibian Khoekhoegowab (also known as “Nama”/“Damara”), but occasionally also refers to borrowings in the opposite direction.
Wilfrid Haacke
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Lexical Borrowing in Tourism Terminology

open access: yesPsychology and Education Journal, 2021
The article studied borrowing in replenishing the terminology fund of the tourism sector showed that it was most widely used in the Uzbek language, and most of the terms are borrowed from the English language, which can be attributed to the typological line of the Russian language.
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English lexical items in Egyptian Arabic. Code-switching or borrowing?

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2017
The study aims to answer the question of whether lone English items that occur in Arabic-English code-switching are borrowings or code-switches. This is based on empirical data collected at the American University in Cairo.
Kniaź, Małgorzata
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The impact of borrowing English words into Iraqi Arabic Dialect

open access: yesJ-SHMIC: Journal of English for Academic
• This paper deals with usage of English borrowing words in Iraqi Arabic dialect as one of the linguistic phenomena that we are currently experiencing due to globalization and the use of English language as a global Language.
Ali Abdalkarem M.Sadeq Al Yashil   +1 more
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What are Borrowings in Advertising for? Lexical Borrowings in Advertising

open access: yesTaikomoji kalbotyra, 2015
The aim of the article is to analyse reasons of using new lexical borrowings in advertising, taking into account features of advertising as a genre. The empirical basis of the analysis consists of advertisements including borrowings that were collected in the Database of the New Borrowings.
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Borrowing or code-switching? Single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese

open access: yesOpen Linguistics
With reference to a dataset of single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese, this article re-examines the controversial distinction between single-word code-switches and lexical borrowing.
Chan Brian Hok-Shing
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Same old paska or new shit? On the stylistic boundaries and social meaning potentials of swearing loanwords in Finnish

open access: yesAmpersand, 2019
As pointed out by numerous researchers in the “pragmatic turn” of borrowing, pragmatic borrowings into a recipient language tend to carry social and pragmatic meanings that distinguish them both from equivalent forms in the donor language and in the ...
Johanna Vaattovaara, Elizabeth Peterson
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