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- Title
Sociolinguistic implications in Chinese-language borrowings in English.
- Authors
Cannon, Garland
- Abstract
This article explores the sociolinguistic implications of Chinese-language borrowings in the English language. Language borrowing is a vast topic, as evidenced by the 1,507 bibliographical entries in Louis Deroy's book, the most comprehensive work on the subject. Early sociolinguistic studies have concentrated on native items or items borrowed from within the same language family. Another study collects and describes 981 known, unduplicated items in English dictionaries that have at least some provenience from Chinese. It is of interest to the author of this article to summarize those data and conclusions and make sociolinguistic applications. Scholars have generally considered Chinese to have had little impact on English. However, Mary S. Serjeantson's book on English borrowings and current histories of the language indicate that Chinese has given few items, though some of the items have high frequency.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language -- Foreign words &; phrases; FOREIGN elements in the English language; CHINESE language; SINO-Tibetan languages; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; culture; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1990, Vol 1990, Issue 86, p41
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.1990.86.41