Language Contact Around the Globe

Contents: Amei Koll-Stobbe/Sebastian Knospe: Language Contact Around the Globe - Donald Winford: Toward an integrated model of contact-induced change - Sylwester Jaworski: Contact-induced changes in Polish morphology - Cristiano Furiassi: False Italianisms in English dictionaries and corpora - Branka Drlja?a Margi?: Contemporary English influence on Croatian: a university students' perspective - Laura Zieseler/Amei Koll-Stobbe: At sea with standards? The pluricentric nature of English and its impact on non-native speakers' attitudes and language use - Esme Winter-Froemel/Alexander Onysko/Andreea Calude: Why some non-catachrestic borrowings are most successful than others: a case study of English loans in German - Sebastian Knospe: Written code-switching in the German news magazine Der Spiegel - Gerald Stell: Language alternation and ethnicity in a post-colonial context: code-switching as a «non-White» register in South Africa - Marisa Patuto/Laia Arnaus Gil/Nadine Eichler/Veronika Jansen/Anika Schmeißer/Natascha Muller: Child-external and -internal factors in bilingual code-switching: Spanish, Italian, French and German - Edward Gillian: Light Warlpiri: an examination of some of the linguistic and non-linguistic developmental influences on this language - Dennis R. Preston: DAMNED IF YOU DO, AND DAMNED IF YOU DON'T: the perception of languages and language varieties in a globalizing world - Martin Schweinberger: Frequency, dispersion and register variation of selected discourse-pragmatic particles in Singapore English - Heiko F. Marten: The 3-Circle-Model of English world-wide: Can it contribute to understanding the global position of German? - Birte Arendt: Language ideology of the European Union under a critical perspective: the example of the Regional Language Low German - Laszlo Maracz: Resiliencing Hungarian minority languages in the New Europe - Svitlana Shakh: The linguistic landscapes of Ukraine at the crossroads of nationalism and regionalism - Phattharathanit Srichomthong: Language globalization in Northern Thailand - Yael Guilat/Shoshi Waksman: The linguistic landscape of Israel's military cemeteries as a field of symbolic contestation - Karin Ebeling: The Calibans write in English: an investigation of language in postcolonial and transcultural contexts - Antonia Unger Jekaterina Nikitin: Crisis communication: an analysis of English originals and German translations of BP's corporate communication during the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.