
Title:
Pseudo-English : Studies on False Anglicisms in Europe
Author:
Andersen, Gisle, contributor.
ISBN:
9781614514688
Physical Description:
1 online resource (287 p.)
Series:
Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 9
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- I. Theory -- 1. Getting to grips with false loans and pseudo-Anglicisms -- 2. Allogenisms: The major category of "true" false loans -- II. Germanic Languages -- 3. Danish pseudo-Anglicisms: A corpus-based analysis -- 4. Pseudo-Anglicisms in the language of the contemporary German press -- 5. Pseudo-borrowings as cases of pragmatic borrowing: Focus on Anglicisms in Norwegian -- III. Romance Languages -- 6. False Anglicization in the Romance languages: A contrastive analysis of French, Spanish and Italian -- 7. False Anglicisms in French: A measure of their acceptability for English speakers -- 8. The rise of the English -ing form in Modern Spanish: A source of pseudo-Anglicisms -- 9. The influence of English and French on the Italian language of fashion: Focus on false Anglicisms and false Gallicisms -- IV. English -- 10. Drawing a distinction between false Gallicisms and adapted French borrowings in English -- Appendix -- 11. False borrowings and false Anglicisms: Issues in terminology -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index
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