Browsing Research articles (Dept of English) by Subject "Borrowing"
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Aspects of culture and meaning in Botswana English
(Sage Publications http://www.sagepublications.com, 2009)Using samples from local newspapers, letters and public speeches, this article argues that English assimilates to and reflects the Botswana culture through borrowing and semantic modification. It discusses those terminologies ... -
Challenges to issues of balance and representativesness in African lexicography
(http://afrilex.africanlanguages.com/homelex.html , 2006)Modern dictionaries depend on corpora of different sizes and types for frequency listings, concordances and collocations, illustrative sentences and grammatical information. With the help of computer software, retrieving ...