Pseudo-English: Studies on False Anglicisms in Europe

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Pseudo-English

Studies on False Anglicisms in Europe

Edited by: Cristiano Furiassi and Henrik Gottlieb

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

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eBook published on:

March 10, 2015

eBook ISBN:

9781614514688

Hardcover published on:

February 26, 2015

Hardcover ISBN:

9781614516712

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Front matter:

11

Main content:

287

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514688

eBook ISBN: 9781614514688

Hardcover ISBN: 9781614516712

Keywords for this book

Applied Linguistics; False Borrowing; English

Audience(s) for this book

English Scholars; Theoretical and Applied Linguists.

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