Pseudo-English: Studies on False Anglicisms in Europe

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Pseudo-English

Studies on False Anglicisms in Europe

Edited by: Cristiano Furiassi
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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 9 | Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

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This volume focuses on how English, through false Anglicisms, influences several European languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Norwegian. Studies on false Gallicisms are also included, thus showing how English may be affected by false borrowings.

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Cristiano Furiassi, University of Turin, Italy; Henrik Gottlieb, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xi
I. Theory
1. Getting to grips with false loans and pseudo-Anglicisms Henrik Gottlieb and Cristiano Furiassi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
2. Allogenisms: The major category of “true” false loans John Humbley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
II. Germanic Languages
3. Danish pseudo-Anglicisms: A corpus-based analysis Henrik Gottlieb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
4. Pseudo-Anglicisms in the language of the contemporary German press Sebastian Knospe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
5. Pseudo-borrowings as cases of pragmatic borrowing: Focus on Anglicisms in Norwegian Gisle Andersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
III. Romance Languages
6. False Anglicization in the Romance languages: A contrastive analysis of French, Spanish and Italian Vincent Renner and Jesús Fernández-Domínguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
7. False Anglicisms in French: A measure of their acceptability for English speakers James Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
8. The rise of the English -ing form in Modern Spanish: A source of pseudo-Anglicisms Brian Mott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
9. The influence of English and French on the Italian language of fashion: Focus on false Anglicisms and false Gallicisms Lucilla Lopriore and Cristiano Furiassi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
IV. English
10. Drawing a distinction between false Gallicisms and adapted French borrowings in English Ramón Martí Solano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Appendix
11. False borrowings and false Anglicisms: Issues in terminology Cristiano Furiassi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283