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Americanisation and the Discourse of Guilt in Germany, 1945-1955
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Kamper, Heidrun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
Rather than originating in the post-1945 period, the Americanisation of the German language represents the post-war transformation of a gradual anglicisation of German which began in the 18th century with the expansion of English industry and trade. The influence of American English on German began after World War I, and intensified under the…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, German, North American English