Brief Analysis of Chinese Borrowings in English.docVIP

Brief Analysis of Chinese Borrowings in English 　　1. Introduction 　　Borrowing is a term used in comparative and historical linguistics and according to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary， “borrowing” can be defined as “something borrowed； esp.： a word or phrase adopted from one language into another.” Borrowing is a very common linguistic phenomenon in language development and English in its development has managed to widen its vocabulary by borrowing words from other languages. Although Chinese borrowings in English is only 1488（Wang， 2002）， accounting for a small part of borrowing