New worlds for old words: The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe

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Christopher Pountain

New worlds for old words

The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe

Christopher Pountain

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Vernon Press
17 May 2021

Lexicography; Social & cultural history

Series: Series in Language and Linguistics; Bridging Languages and Scholarship

"""New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras"" is a collection of chapters on the theme of lexical borrowing in the languages of Western Europe with particular focus on borrowing from Latin, or from Greek via Latin, into Spanish. Such cultured, or ""learnèd"" borrowing-as it has sometimes been designated-, is an especially intriguing feature of the Romance languages, since they also derive from Latin. It is also of particular interest to historical linguists since it is an example of what has been called ""change from above"" innovation first evidenced in the written usage of the culturally élite which then diffuses into more general acceptance, with the result that some cultured borrowings (e.g. problem/problema, social, program(me)/programa) are now amongst the most common words in the modern languages. Despite their enormous influence on such major languages as English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian, the mechanisms by which these borrowings become established in their host languages have to date been relatively little studied. This book seeks to make a contribution to this question and revive interest in what has become a neglected area of historical linguistics and contains contributions both by internationally respected scholars and new researchers in the field.

This bilingual collection will appeal to academics, scholars, and postgraduate students of Hispanic Studies, Cultural History, and particularly Historical Linguistics and Romance Linguistics.

""New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras"" es una colección sobre los préstamos léxicos en los idiomas de Europa occidental, centrándose sobre todo en los préstamos del latín, o del griego a través del latín, al español. Los cultismos son un rasgo especialmente interesante de las lenguas romances, ya que ellos mismos proceden del latín. También es de gran interés para la lingüística histórica dado que es un ejemplo de lo que se conoce como ""cambio desde arriba"" cambios atestiguados primero en la lengua escrita de la élite cultural que luego comienza a tener un uso más generalizado, y cuyo resultado es que algunos de estos cultismos (por ejemplo ""problema"", ""social"", ""programa"") se encuentran entre las palabras más comunes en los idiomas modernos. A pesar de su enorme influencia en lenguas tan importantes como el inglés, el español, el portugués, el francés o el italiano, los mecanismos por los que estos préstamos se establecen en los idiomas de acogida se han estudiado relativamente poco hasta ahora. Este volumen es una contribución a esta cuestión y su objetivo es reavivar el interés en lo que se ha convertido en un área olvidada de la lingüística diacrónica. Se incluyen capítulos de académicos conocidos internacionalmente y de investigadores noveles.

Esta colección bilingüe será de gran utilidad para académicos, investigadores y alumnos de posgrado en estudios hispánicos, estudios culturales, y particularmente lingüística histórica y lingüística de las lenguas romances."

Edited by: Christopher Pountain
Imprint: Vernon Press
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9781648891939
ISBN 10: 1648891934
Series: Series in Language and Linguistics; Bridging Languages and Scholarship
Pages: 305
Publication Date: 17 May 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Christopher J. Pountain is Emeritus Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London and a Life Fellow of Queens' College Cambridge. He has an extensive publication record of articles and chapters on a wide range of Romance linguistic themes and is the author of two major books on Spanish, A History of the Spanish Language through Texts (Routledge) and Exploring the Spanish Language (Routledge). He currently leads the 'Loaded Meanings' research strand on the 'Language Acts and Worldmaking' project based at King's College London. He has worked on the phenomenon of Latin influence on the Romance languages for many years and is author of the reference essay 'Latin and the Structure of Written Romance' included in Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (Cambridge University Press). Christopher J. Pountain es profesor emérito de lingüística española en la Queen Mary University de Londres y miembro vitalicio del Queens' College, Cambridge. Ha publicado numerosos artículos y capítulos sobre una variedad de temas de lingüística romance, y ha escrito dos libros de gran importancia sobre el español: A History of the Spanish Language Through Texts y Exploring the Spanish Language (ambos de Routledge). En la actualidad, lidera la línea de investigación ""Loaded Meanings"" en el proyecto ""Language Acts and Worldmaking"" del King's College, Londres. Ha estudiado el fenómeno de la influencia del latín en las lenguas romances durante años, y es el autor del ensayo de referencia ""Latin and the Structure of Written Romance"" incluido en Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (Cambridge University Press). Bozena Wislocka Breit is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, working on the impact of cultured borrowings on Spanish. She is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and the Complutense University, Madrid. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and a postgraduate Diploma in Translation. She has taught at the Jagiellonian University, the Technical University of Madrid, and the Instituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas y Traductores of the Complutense University of Madrid. She has published papers on a wide range of topics, such as the history of Polish translations into Spanish, Spanish and English oenological language, and the language of sensory perception in the 16th-century Spanish. Bozena Wislocka Breit es investigadora post-doctoral en la Queen Mary Unviersity, Londres, y estudia el impacto de los cultismos en el español. Cursó estudios en la Universidad Jaguelónica, Cracovia, y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Tiene un doctorado en lingüística y una diplomatura en traducción. Ha sido profesora en la Universidad Jaguelónica, en la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, y el Instituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas y Traductores de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha publicado artículos sobre diversos temas, como la historia de las traducciones del polaco al español, el lenguaje enológico en español e inglés, y el lenguaje de las percepciones sensoriales en el español del siglo XVI."