Browsing by Author "Zenner, Eline"
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The social meaning potential of loanwords: Empirical explorations of lexical borrowing as expression of (social) identity
(Elsevier, 2019)The use of loanwords is not merely a lexical act (filling a lexical gap in a given language, or using a shorter word in place of a longer expression) but also a socially meaningful one – a contextual expression of self, ...
