| Description |
xii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Greek and Latin as a permanent source of scientific terminology : the German case / Konrad Ehlich -- Internationalism : identical vocabularies in European languages / Peter Braun -- International terminology / Wolfgang Nedobity -- Democracy and the crisis of normative linguistics / Florian Coulmas |
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Language adaptation / Florian Coulmas -- Terminology development in the revival of a language : the case of contemporary Hebrew / Chaim Rabin -- Communicating in Arabic : problems and prospects / Muhammad H. Ibrahim -- An assessment of the development and modernization of the Kiswahili language in Tanzania / David P.B. Massamba -- Aspects of modernization in Indian languages / C.J. Daswani -- Adaptation processes in Chinese : word formation / Fritz Pasierbsky -- The development of Japanese society and the modernization of Japanese during the Meiji restoration / Makoto Takada -- Lexical aspects of the modernization of Japanese / Seiju Sugito -- The transition from Latin to German in the natural sciences and its consequences / Uwe Pörksen |
| Analysis |
Language Change |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases.
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Language planning.
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Linguistic change.
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Terms and phrases.
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| Author |
Coulmas, Florian.
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| LC no. |
89000508 |
| ISBN |
0521362555 |
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