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The literature on China English available seems to focus mostly on the attitudes toward English, the use of English, or the EFL industry in this country. Lexical borrowing as part of nativization has rarely been investigated. This paper presents a data-based analysis of 59 borrowed lexical items as found in 84 articles from two English newspapers in China, including both loanwords and loan translations. On the whole these items do not seem to be in widespread use. Additionally, the findings show that the loanwords tend to be culture-specific lexical items, nonce borrowings, and necessary borrowings. The loan translations may be more foreign than they appear, because of the underlying facets of Chinese culture. Also discussed in the paper are two linguistic factors that may decide if a lexical item may be borrowed as a loanword or a loan translation, as well as the existence of pairs and sets of synonymous loanwords and/or loan translations, found among Chinese-English bilingual communities in and outside China. |
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| Yang, Jian. "Lexical Borrowing in the Chinese Context: Examples from Two English Newspapers in China" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p12288_index.html> |
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| Yang, J. "Lexical Borrowing in the Chinese Context: Examples from Two English Newspapers in China" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p12288_index.html |
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Abstract: The literature on China English available seems to focus mostly on the attitudes toward English, the use of English, or the EFL industry in this country. Lexical borrowing as part of nativization has rarely been investigated. This paper presents a data-based analysis of 59 borrowed lexical items as found in 84 articles from two English newspapers in China, including both loanwords and loan translations. On the whole these items do not seem to be in widespread use. Additionally, the findings show that the loanwords tend to be culture-specific lexical items, nonce borrowings, and necessary borrowings. The loan translations may be more foreign than they appear, because of the underlying facets of Chinese culture. Also discussed in the paper are two linguistic factors that may decide if a lexical item may be borrowed as a loanword or a loan translation, as well as the existence of pairs and sets of synonymous loanwords and/or loan translations, found among Chinese-English bilingual communities in and outside China. |
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| Lexical Borrowing in the Chinese Context: Examples from Two English Newspapers in China In the research on World Englishes borrowing has been long recognized as an important part of the nativization that English has undergone in Asia and Africa. In comparison with the borrowing in syntax and morphology lexical items have the highest ease of borrowing and seem the most likely to occur (Brutt-Griffler 2002; Romaine 1995). This is because they carry the highest content of meaning and refer |
| Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tan Peter. (1998). Malay loan words across different dialects of English. English Today 56 44-50. Wee Lionel. (1998). The lexicon of Singapore English. In English in New Cultural Contests: Reflections from Singapore Joseph. A. Foley Thiru Kandiah Zhiming Bao Anthea Fraser Gupta Lubna Alsagoff Chee Lick Ho et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 175-200. Zhang Yanchang & Zhang Erli. (1996). A report on a contrastive study of English and Chinese vocabulary. In Yinghan Yuyan |
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