Borrowed Words in English and Chinese Vocabulary
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Borrowed Words in English and Chinese Vocabulary
Borrowed words are the products of language development and cultural contact. This paper probes into the brief study of borrowed words in both English and Chinese vocabulary. At the very beginning it generally introduces issues being covered, and the following two parts center on the study of borrowed words on the basis of dictionary research. Later, this paper figures out the significance of b...
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عنوان ژورنال: English Language Teaching
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1916-4750,1916-4742
DOI: 10.5539/elt.v2n1p62