tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Beefmoves: Dissemination, Diversity, and Dynamics of English Borrowings in a German"

We investigate how novel English-derived words (anglicisms) are used in a Germanlanguage Internet hip hop forum, and what factors contribute to their uptake. Because English has established itself as something of a global lingua franca, many languages are currently undergoing a process of introducing new loanwords borrowed from English. However, while the motivations for borrowing are well studied, including . the need to express concepts that do not have corresponding expressions in the recipient language, and the social prestige associated with the other language (Hock and Joseph, 1996), the dynamics of this process are poorly understood. . | Beefmoves Dissemination Diversity and Dynamics of English Borrowings in a German Hip Hop Forum Matt Garley Department of Linguistics University of Illinois 707 S Mathews Avenue Urbana IL 61801 USA mgarley2@ Julia Hockenmaier Department of Computer Science University of Illinois 201 N Goodwin Avenue Urbana IL 61801 USA juliahmr@ Abstract We investigate how novel English-derived words anglicisms are used in a German-language Internet hip hop forum and what factors contribute to their uptake. 1 Introduction Because English has established itself as something of a global lingua franca many languages are currently undergoing a process of introducing new loanwords borrowed from English. However while the motivations for borrowing are well studied including . the need to express concepts that do not have corresponding expressions in the recipient language and the social prestige associated with the other language Hock and Joseph 1996 the dynamics of this process are poorly understood. While mainstream political debates often frame borrowing as evidence of cultural or linguistic decline it is particularly pervasive in youth culture which is often heavily influenced by North American trends. In many countries around the globe hip hop fans form communities in which novel creative uses of English are highly valued Pennycook 2007 indicative of group membership and relatively frequent. We therefore study which factors contribute to the uptake of hip hop-related anglicisms in an online community of German hip hop fans over a span of 11 years. 2 The MZEE and Covo corpora We collected a - word corpus MZEE of forum discussions from March 2000 to March 2011 135 on the German hip hop portal . A manual analysis of 10K words identified of the tokens as anglicisms contrasting with only anglicisms in a major German news magazine the Spiegel Onysko 2007 . These anglicisms include uninflected English stems . battle rapper flow as .