Anglicisms around the Globe (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)

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.

This 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 the 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 at invisible Anglicisms, cases in which English expressions are translated verbatim and cases when words in a recipient language change their meaning due to English influence. This 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, bilingualism, and lexicography.

Henrik Gottlieb is an Emeritus Associate Professor of English at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Chair of the Global Anglicism Database Network.

Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin is a Senior Researcher at the Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Romanian Academy, and an Associate Professor 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.

Keisuke Imamura is an Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan.

Jaime W. Hunt is a Lecturer of Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.