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Title Spanish loanwords in the English language : a tendency towards hegemony reversal / edited by Félix Rodríguez González
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996

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Description xii, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Series Topics in English linguistics ; 18
Topics in English linguistics ; 18
Contents Introduction / Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez -- Spanish loanwords in English by 1900 / John Algeo -- Recent borrowings from Spanish into English / Garland Cannon -- Stylistic aspects of Spanish borrowings in the political press: Lexical and morphological variations / Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez -- Spanish loanwords in contemporary American English slang / Thomas E. Murray -- Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English / Beatriz Varela -- Hispanic tracks in English: cowboys and gold-rushers in the Old West / Juan R. Lodares -- Spanish place names in the United States / Jerry R. Craddock -- Lexical selection and borrowing in the bilingual Southwest / Jacob Ornstein-Galicia -- The Anglo-American stereotype of the Hispanic as reflected in loanwords / Eleanor G. Cotton and John M. Sharp -- Spanish words in Anglo-American literature: A Chicano perspective / Jose Antonio Burciaga
Aspects of the incidence of hispanicisms in British English: A study in language, history, politics and psychology / Anthony Gooch -- Spanish loanwords in Caribbean English / Jeannette Allsopp -- Lexical borrowings from Spanish into English: A bibliographical guide / Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez
Analysis Americanisms -- West (U.S.)
English language -- Foreign words and phrases -- Spanish
English language -- West (U.S.) -- Foreign elements -Spanish
Languages in contact -- West (U.S.)
Spanish language -- Influence on English
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-294) and index
Subject Americanisms -- West (U.S.)
English language -- Foreign words and phrases -- Spanish
English language -- West (U.S.) -- Foreign elements -- Spanish
Languages in contact -- West (U.S.)
Spanish language -- Influence on English.
Author Rodríguez González, Félix.
LC no. 95048496
ISBN 3110148455 (cloth alk. paper)