{"product_id":"the-phonology-of-english-loanwords-in-german-a-corpus-based-study-von-laura-jax","title":"The Phonology of English Loanwords in German","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Englisch - Pädagogik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Institut für Englische Sprachwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Can you think of an English loanword in German that originally contains the sounds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\/ð\/ or \/¿\/? No? One might now spiteful say: luckily not! Jumping on the cliché that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermans are not able to pronounce the th-sounds properly, this saves us a lot of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacoustic mishaps. Yet, meanwhile there do exist a few loanwords containing the apico-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edental fricatives \/ð\/ or \/¿\/, as for example smoothie \/'smüði\/ or thriller \/'¿r¿l¿\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill their proportion out of the total amount of English loans in German is vanishingly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esmall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing it to linguistic terms, these phonemes exclusively belong to the English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephoneme inventory and do not constitute part of the German language system. Therefore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe research question of this thesis is: Do phonological features influence the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eborrowing of a foreign word?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are a lot of reasons for the adaptation of loanwords and many works in linguistics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeal with them in great detail (cf. for example Holland 2007: 49ff; Fischer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2008: 1ff).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reasons for such lexical gaps vary greatly: cultural innovation may\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eintroduce objects or actions that do not have a name in the native language; native\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewords may be perceived as non-prestigious; names of foreign cities, institutions,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand political figures which were once unknown may have entered the public eye;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enew words may be introduced for play, etc. (Calabrese and Wetzels 2009b: 1)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost discussions about the factors that influence the occurrence of a loanword go\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eback to syntactic, lexical, semantic or social circumstances (cf. Fischer 2008: 1f).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving browsed many books about English loanwords, only few of them explicitly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ementioned phonological features when talking about parameters determining the appearance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof loanwords. This study tries to fill this gap by investigating the phonological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproperties of English loanwords in German.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing a study within English linguistics, the focus lies on the English etymons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat are borrowed into German. With regard to borrowing, the term etymon can be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eequated with the terms root or source word since it is defined as ¿lexical form from an earlier stage in the history of a word from which the modern word is derived¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Nord 2002). [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656139249\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Corpus-Based Study\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656139249","offer_id":39445025357917,"sku":"9783656139249","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/f57c77cc-e52a-4b90-bcb7-fe6b96436293.jpg?v=1777870436","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-phonology-of-english-loanwords-in-german-a-corpus-based-study-von-laura-jax","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}