{"product_id":"germanisms-in-american-speech-von-karolin-buttner","title":"Germanisms in American Speech","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Differences in American and British English, language: English, abstract: In past years, many studies have been published concerning the influence of English, especially\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof American English, on the German language. Many people complain about the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehotchpotch of English and German used by present-day youths. They blame the media for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe destruction of the German language. This even led to the founding of an association,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eder Verein Deutsche Sprache, to protect the German language. However, few people seem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto be aware that German has made a sizeable contribution to the American English vocabulary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etoo, even though this is not as large as the contribution of English to the German language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs will be shown in this paper, words denoting foods, drinks, amusements, skiing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eactivities, German inventions and parts of the education system were borrowed by the native\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epopulation. Borrowing from German started with the early colonial settlers in the 17th\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecentury, settling in Pennsylvania and evolving the Pennsylvanian German which is not of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einterest in this paper as it is completely different from the usage of German words of an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaverage American, and has continued to the present time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis paper deals with Germanisms in American speech and is intended to give an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoverview of the concept of borrowing. Firstly, the processes of borrowing with its examples\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof distant and intimate borrowing are traced. Stanforth¿s monograph Deutsche Einflüsse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eauf den englischen Wortschatz in Geschichte und Gegenwart serves as the basis. Afterwards,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein accordance to Haugen, his categorisation of the loan material into importation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esubstitution, partial-substitution and their subdivisions loan words, loan meanings, loan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecoinages, loan blends and loan compounds are represented with examples. The following\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eparagraphs elaborate on the naturalization of the loan material. It is shown that the typographic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erepresentation of words, the orthography, the pronunciation and the grammar can\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egive information on the state of naturalization. Furthermore, the loan material can change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eits part of speech or meaning after having been borrowed. In the fourth main paragraph the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereasons for the large amount of Germanisms, such as the lack of American English equivalents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor the striving for profit and prestige, are explained in detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640173112\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640173112","offer_id":39424155713629,"sku":"9783640173112","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3553c157-7893-49ea-a384-9576b105a27e.jpg?v=1777612927","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/germanisms-in-american-speech-von-karolin-buttner","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}