Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing functional requirements.
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Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing functional requirements. This wide-ranging collection of essays looks at this phenomenon from a variety of historical and synchronic perspectives, and brings together the work of a number of leading scholars in the field.
Preface 1. Language adaptation Florian Coulmas; 2. Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew Chaim Rabin; 3. Communicating in Arabic: problems and prospects Muhammad H. Ibrahim; 4. An assessment of the development and modernization of the Kiswahili language in Tanzania David P. B. Massamba; 5. Aspects of modernization in Indian languages C. J. Daswani; 6. Adaptation processes in Chinese: word formation Fritz Pasierbsky; 7. The development of Japanese society and the modernization of Japanese during the Meiji restoration Makoto Takada; 8. Lexical aspects of the modernization of Japanese Seiju Sugito; 9. The transition from Latin to German in the natural sciences and its consequences Uwe Porksen; 10. Greek and Latin as a permanent source of scientific terminology: the German case Konrad Ehlich; 11. Internationalisms: identical vocabularies in European languages Peter Braun; 12. International terminology W. Nedobity; 13. Democracy and the crisis of normative linguistics Florian Coulmas; Index.
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