BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news377@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221124T170911 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221206T130000 SUMMARY:The Dynamic Lexicon of English: A Socio-cognitive Approach to Loan Processes and Their Linguistic Effects DESCRIPTION:This paper contributes to the investigation of the dynamics of the lexicon of the English language. Using an integrative socio-cognitive model of the dynamic lexicon (see Schmid 2018: 215-231)\, borrowing proces ses and their linguistic effects on English are to be illustrated. The foc us of interest will be on lexical units which have been adopted from Frenc h\, Spanish\, German and Yiddish into English since the nineteenth century . Compared to previous centuries\, there has been a general increase in th e number of borrowed words from these languages since 1801. New media\, su ch as the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED) and corpora (e.g. the Bri tish National Corpus\, the Corpus of Contemporary American English) will m ake it possible to examine to what extent the borrowings demonstrate seman tic\, morphological\, and contextual variability in the receiving language . The focus of the present paper is not on the total vocabulary borrowed f rom French\, German\, Spanish and Yiddish into English since 1801\, but on several hundred relatively widespread lexical units that have undergone c hanges over the centuries with respect to their meaning\, word form\, and contextual use\, and thus brought about variation and change in the lexico n of the receiving language. Lexical innovation and change are typical cha racteristics of a living language. They often point to changing social sit uations or recent cultural trends. As to Schmid’s model\, it will be ess ential to determine what is felt to be ‘French’\, ‘Spanish’\, ‘G erman’ or ‘Yiddish’ when carrying out contrastive analyses of langua ge use and variation in specific English semantic areas. In order to ident ify connections between linguistic features and social or socio-cognitive attitudes\, precise descriptions of very particular and culturally embedde d attitudes are necessary. For example\, the usage of German borrowings si gnaling German-American identity is not as widespread as the analogous phe nomenon in Yiddish\, where borrowings are systematically used to build up “ethnolinguistic repertoires” (see Benor 2010). As will be seen\, Yidd ish borrowings are consciously used as cultural clues by (American) Jews\, in order to depict an authentic image of Jewish culture and to indicate t heir ethnic identity. There are many more relevant cultural contexts that are important for the analysis of the vocabulary carried out in this study . This paper will offer some detailed case studies of typical types of bor rowing reflecting connections of linguistic features and sociocultural att itudes which have been identified in the overall analysis.\\r\\n Reference s\\r\\n Benor\, S. B. (2010): “Ethnolinguistic repertoire: Shifting the analytic focus in language and ethnicity.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 14(2)\, 159-183. Landmann\, J. (accepted): The Dynamic Lexicon of English : A socio-cognitive approach towards loan processes and their linguistic e ffects. Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language. Le iden: Brill. Schmid\, H. (2018): “Ein integratives soziokognitives Mode ll des dynamischen Lexikons\,” in: Engelberg\, S. – Lobin\, H. – Ste yer\, K. – Wolfer\, S. (eds.): Wortschätze: Dynamik\, Muster\, Komplexi tät. Institut für Deutsche Sprache. Jahrbuch 2017. Berlin – Boston: de Gruyter\, 215-231. Schultz\, J. (2012). Twentieth-century Borrowings fro m French to English: Their Reception and Development. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Schultz\, Julia (2016). Twentieth Century Borrowings from German to English: Their Semantic Integration and Context ual Usage. Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft/Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Frankfurt [et al.]: Lang. Sc hultz\, J. (2018). The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801: A Lexical Investigation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub lishing. X-ALT-DESC:

This paper contributes to the investigation of the dynamics o f the lexicon of the English language. Using an integrative socio-cognitiv e model of the dynamic lexicon (see Schmid 2018: 215-231)\, borrowing proc esses and their linguistic effects on English are to be illustrated. The f ocus of interest will be on lexical units which have been adopted from Fre nch\, Spanish\, German and Yiddish into English since the nineteenth centu ry. Compared to previous centuries\, there has been a general increase in the number of borrowed words from these languages since 1801. New media\, such as the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED) and corpora (e.g. the B ritish National Corpus\, the Corpus of Contemporary American English) will make it possible to examine to what extent the borrowings demonstrate sem antic\, morphological\, and contextual variability in the receiving langua ge.
The focus of the present paper is not on the total vocabulary bo rrowed from French\, German\, Spanish and Yiddish into English since 1801\ , but on several hundred relatively widespread lexical units that have und ergone changes over the centuries with respect to their meaning\, word for m\, and contextual use\, and thus brought about variation and change in th e lexicon of the receiving language.
Lexical innovation and change a re typical characteristics of a living language. They often point to chang ing social situations or recent cultural trends. As to Schmid’s model\, it will be essential to determine what is felt to be ‘French’\, ‘Spa nish’\, ‘German’ or ‘Yiddish’ when carrying out contrastive anal yses of language use and variation in specific English semantic areas. In order to identify connections between linguistic features and social or so cio-cognitive attitudes\, precise descriptions of very particular and cult urally embedded attitudes are necessary. For example\, the usage of German borrowings signaling German-American identity is not as widespread as the analogous phenomenon in Yiddish\, where borrowings are systematically use d to build up “ethnolinguistic repertoires” (see Benor 2010). As will be seen\, Yiddish borrowings are consciously used as cultural clues by (Am erican) Jews\, in order to depict an authentic image of Jewish culture and to indicate their ethnic identity. There are many more relevant cultural contexts that are important for the analysis of the vocabulary carried out in this study. This paper will offer some detailed case studies of typica l types of borrowing reflecting connections of linguistic features and soc iocultural attitudes which have been identified in the overall analysis.\n


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