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Loan Words in Modern English and Their Features
ZHOU Li-na
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2016.03.006
China Youth University of Political Studies, Beijing, China
English language, as a global language, is exerting greater influence on the world. It has been enlarging along with the development of the society, the progress of science and technology by the way of borrowing from other languages such as French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic in the fields of politics, culture, education, economics, science, and technology. Borrowing or loan word has become an important part in the process of English vocabulary acquisition. This paper studies modern English loan words, summarizes types of loan words, and makes a tentative analysis of their features with the attempt to facilitate English learning in an effective way.
modern English, loan words, features
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