Description
Book SynopsisThe fact that English has always borrowed heavily from other languages is well known. However, the systemic long-term effects of the processes involved in such contacts are under-researched. This collection of articles takes a more wide-spanning approach, looking at various periods and phenomena across the centuries. The volume focusses on language contact seen as cultural contact, especially with Scandinavia and France, as well as on specific text types from times ranging from Old English to the twentieth century.
The volume aims at advancing insight on the ways in which contacts with other languages and cultures influenced the English language as a whole. The book provides new reflections on borrowing and lexical innovation as cultural choices bound to different textual traditions.
Table of ContentsGabriella Mazzon -Introduction - Herbert Schendl , Philip Durkin & Gisle Anderson-Systemic effects of lexical contact- Valeria di Clemente , Letizia Vezzosi & Julia Landmann - Borrowing and ideology - Louise Sylvester, Megan Tiddeman , Richard Ingham , Stefan Dollinger , Alexandra Doherty , Giovanni Iamartino , Lucia Berti & Gabriella Mazzon - Language contact and cultural contact
