English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization
This book on language contact explores word-formation patterns, lexicalization, idiomaticity and institutionalization of loan translations (calques). It includes a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria, and a dictionary of over 500 loan translations from English.
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English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization
This book on language contact explores word-formation patterns, lexicalization, idiomaticity and institutionalization of loan translations (calques). It includes a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria, and a dictionary of over 500 loan translations from English.
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English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization

English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization

by Alicja Witalisz
English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization

English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization

by Alicja Witalisz

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Overview

This book on language contact explores word-formation patterns, lexicalization, idiomaticity and institutionalization of loan translations (calques). It includes a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria, and a dictionary of over 500 loan translations from English.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631663608
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 09/16/2015
Series: Studies in Language, Culture and Society , #7
Edition description: Bilingual
Pages: 350
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alicja Witalisz is a Lecturer of English Linguistics at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. Her field of research is language contact. She publishes on linguistic borrowing from English and specializes in covert borrowing.

Table of Contents

Contents: Loan translation – Borrowing – Loan – Calque – Semantic change – Language contact – Anglicism – Contact-induced innovation – Loanword – Semantic loan – Loanblend – Hybrid creation – Loan creation – Lexicalization – Idiomaticity – Idiomatization – Institutionalization – Semantic Lexicalization.
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