How new words come into the language


Term Paper, 2011

9 Pages


Abstract or Introduction

...The study of language has become a subject of interest for many years. English for instance, has without a doubt become the global language. Whenever we turn on the news to find out what is happening from four corner of the world, local people are being interviewed and telling us about it in English. To be more specific, English is adopted as an internal lingua franca and second language for most Europeans (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Dutch, and France) although English is not treated as an official language in these countries. While in most Asian countries, having English is always associated with having a prestigious job and career. However, people do not realize that English has adopted enormous number of words from various countries in the world since the imperialism and trade kicked off.
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This essay will respectively discuss the various ways that word-formation processes come into a language, adapted from Yule (1996, p.63-70) namely; coinage, borrowing, compounding, blending, clipping, backformation, conversion, acronyms, derivation, prefixes and suffixes, infixes and multiple processes. Furthermore, this essay will also discuss the implications of word formation for a language learning and teaching process....

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Title
How new words come into the language
College
University of Rostock
Author
Year
2011
Pages
9
Catalog Number
V177150
ISBN (eBook)
9783640986583
ISBN (Book)
9783656369868
File size
484 KB
Language
English
Quote paper
Anne-Katrin Wilking (Author), 2011, How new words come into the language, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/177150

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