Image backgrounded words as a reflection of a national culture(borrowings from Australian indigenous languages in Modern English)
The article describes how English was likely to develop since the colony was establishedat Sydney in 1788, how the first settlements needed to accustomise to an alien world, inwhich entirely unknown and never seen before flora and fauna existed. The further lexical developmenthas been examined via diachronical perspective, including borrowings from indigenouslanguages, as well as multiple modifications of the meanings of already existing English words.
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языки коренного населения, языки аборигенов, диалекты, национальные словесные образы, кенгуру, мимоза, флора, фауна, aboriginal words, indigenous languages, dialect, generate new terms and collocations, kangaroo, mulga, flora, faunaAuthors
| Name | Organization | |
| Grishaeva E.B. | Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk | e-grishaeva@mail.ru |
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