Borrowings from other languages as adoptions of novel cultural influences

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: English Words as Witnesses of Times, language: English, abstract: Reading a newspaper can be challenging and often people wonder about the meaning of a particular word. It would be interesting ...