Judith Rosenhouse & Rotem Kowner 
Globally Speaking [EPUB ebook] 
Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages

Introduction

1. The Hegemony of English and Determinants of Borrowing from its Vocabulary – Rotem Kowner  and Judith Rosenhouse

2. Icelandic: Phono-Semantic Matching – Yair Sapir and Ghil’ad Zuckermann

3. French: Tradition vs. Innovation as Reflected in English Borrowings – Miriam Ben-Rafael

4. Dutch: Is It Threatened by English? – Herman J. De Vries Jr.

5. Hungarian: Trends and Determinants of English Borrowing in a Market Economy Newcomer – Zsuzsa Sziklain Gombos, Zoltán Sturcz with Judith Rosenhouse and Rotem Kowner

6. Russian: From Social Realism to Reality Show – Maria Yelenevskaya

7. Hebrew: Borrowing Ideology and Pragmatic Aspects in a Modern(ized) Language – Judith Rosenhouse and Haya Fisherman

8. Colloquial Arabic (in Israel): The Case of English Loanwords in a Minority Language with Diglossia – Judith Rosenhouse

9. Amharic: Political and Social Effects on English Loanwords – Anbessa Teferra

10. Farsi: The Process of Modernization and the Advent of English – Soli Shahvar

11. Indian Languages: Hidden English in Texts and Society – Dennis Kurzon

12. Chinese in Taiwan: Cooking a Linguistic Chop Suey and Embracing English – Sufen Sophia Lai

13. Japanese: The Dialectic Relationships between ‘Westerness’ and ‘Japaneseness’ as Reflected in English Loanwords – Rotem Kowner and Michal Daliot-Bul

14. Conclusion: Features of Borrowing from English in Twelve Languages – Judith Rosenhouse and Rotem Kowner

Contributors

Bibliography

Kowner is an Israeli Japanologist who focuses on Japanese attitudes and response to foreign culture, the West in particular, in modern times. Currently he serves as the chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Haifa.