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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466915503321

Titolo

Spanish loanwords in the English language : a tendency towards hegemony reversal / / edited by Félix Rodríguez González

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1996

ISBN

3-11-089061-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2017]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; ; 18

Disciplina

422/.461

Soggetti

Americanisms - West (U.S.)

Languages in contact - West (U.S.)

Spanish language - Influence on English

English language - Foreign words and phrases - Spanish

English language - West (U.S.) - Foreign elements - Spanish

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction / González, Félix Rodríguez -- Spanish Loanwords in English by 1900 / Algeo, John -- Recent borrowings from Spanish into English / Cannon, Garland -- Stylistic aspects of Spanish borrowings in the political press: Lexical and morphological variations / González, Félix Rodríguez -- Spanish loanwords in contemporary American English slang / Murray, Thomas E. -- Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English / Varela, Beatriz -- Hispanic tracks in English: cowboys and goldrushers in the Old West / Lodares, Juan R. -- Spanish place names in the United States / Craddock, Jerry R. -- Lexical selection and borrowing in the bilingual Southwest / Omstein-Galicia, Jacob -- The Anglo-American stereotype of the Hispanic as reflected in loanwords / Cotton, Eleanor G. / Sharp, John M. -- Spanish words in Anglo-American literature: A Chicano perspective / Burciaga, José Antonio -- Aspects of the incidence of hispanicisms in British English: A study in language, history, politics and psychology / Gooch, Anthony -- Spanish loanwords in Caribbean English / Allsopp, Jeannette -- Lexical borrowings from Spanish into English: A bibliographical guide /



González, Félix Rodríguez -- Index