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This collection explores the global impact of English through fact-based and contrastive analyses of different types of Anglicisms across a wide range of languages. The volume showcases the ways in which contact-induced language change operates across several different languages simultaneously. This approach allows for an examination of similarities and differences in adaptation processes of English models in languages with differing phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and writing systems. Drawing on data from the Global Anglicism Database (GLAD), the first multilingual repository featuring lexical and phraseological Anglicisms, chapters look not only at visible Anglicisms, such as augmented reality or easy listening, which reflect their English origin, but also invisible Anglicisms, cases in which English expressions are translated verbatim or words in a recipient language change their meaning due to English influence. The volume offers a multi-layered perspective on how Anglicisms develop and blend into different languages, and readers are presented with a nuanced understanding of contact-induced language change. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in language contact, World Englishes, language policy and planning, and lexicography.

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Author:   Henrik Gottlieb ,  Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin ,  Alicja Witalisz ,  Keisuke Imamura (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032840505

ISBN 10:   1032840501
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Anglicisms as evidence of the global English impact: An introduction, Henrik Gottlieb, Jaime W. Hunt, Keisuke Imamura, Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin and Alicja Witalisz Part 1: The impact of English across languages: linguistic and extralinguistic factors Chapter 1: Measuring the level of English influence on Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese, Keisuke Imamura, Soonhyeong Lee, Jie Quan, Yun Wang and Hailan Ma Chapter 2: The influence of English on Esperanto, Sabine Fiedler Chapter 3: English-induced borrowings in Italian, French and Spanish youth language: a GLAD comparison, Stefania Cicillini and Virginia Pulcini Chapter 4: Taboo Anglicisms in Afrikaans, Monique Rabé and Gerhard B. van Huyssteen Part 2: Formal integration of Anglicisms across languages Chapter 5: The English impact on Slavonic languages – variation in the morphological adaptation of recent Anglicisms in Croatian, Polish and Russian, Nika Zoričić, John Dunn, Alicja Witalisz Chapter 6: The gender of nominal Anglicisms across language families and regions: a typological study, Jaime W. Hunt, Bill Palmer, Arvind Iyengar Part 3: Multi-word Anglicisms and pseudo-Anglicisms across languages Chapter 7: Phraseological anglicisms from a cross-linguistic perspective: The impact of English on German, Polish and Spanish, Sabine Fiedler, Ramón Martí Solano, Alicja Witalisz Chapter 8: Are differences in data collection a hindrance to cross-linguistic comparisons? Phraseological anglicisms in Danish and Norwegian as a case in point, Gisle Andersen, Henrik Gottlieb Chapter 9: A cross-linguistic study on pseudo-Anglicisms in six languages, Nicoline van der Sijs, Irena Kapo, Kristina Jorgaqi, Henrik Gottlieb, John Humbley, Keisuke Imamura, John Dunn Chapter 10: BLACK FRIDAY-based loans and pseudo-Anglicisms in Albanian, Greek, Polish and Romanian – a contrastive corpus-based study, Alicja Witalisz, Irena Kapo, Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin, Rania Papadopoulou, George J. Xydopoulos Postscript: The role of the GLAD Network, Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin Index

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Henrik Gottlieb is an Emeritus Associate Professor of English at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and chair of the Global Anglicism Database Network. Jaime W. Hunt is a Lecturer of Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Keisuke Imamura is an Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan. Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin is a Senior Researcher at the Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Romanian Academy, and a Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Alicja Witalisz is a Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of English Studies at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Poland.

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