Asian borrowing in commercial and scientific modern english

The main aim of this paper is to show the introduction of Asian loanwords in commercial and scientific Modern English. There are several reasons why English speakers might want to adopt a foreign word. The simplest one is that the word is the name for something new, which is often the case in the ei...

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Autor: Pérez Iglesias, Elvira
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Repositorio:accedaCRIS portal de investigación de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria
OAI Identifier:oai:accedacris.ulpgc.es:10553/5646
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10553/5646
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:570107 Lengua y literatura
550510 Filología
Asian
Borrowing
Commercial
Scientific
Modern English
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Sumario:The main aim of this paper is to show the introduction of Asian loanwords in commercial and scientific Modern English. There are several reasons why English speakers might want to adopt a foreign word. The simplest one is that the word is the name for something new, which is often the case in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The definitions and etymologies of the loanwords selected together with the date and work where they are first registered are extracted from the OED.