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Englishization of Business Names in Brazil.

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Thonus, Terese – World Englishes, 1991

A study of 47,542 telephone directory listings of business names in Brazil to document the extent of Englishization in Brazilian Portuguese indicated that business names, rather than being linked to an international variety of commercial English, may be viewed as a form of function interlanguage identifying the referent as trendy or unique. (28…

Descriptors: Business Communication, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Industry

Imagint Excusations: Missionary English in the Nineteenth Century Cape Colony, South Africa.

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Mesthrie, Rajend – World Englishes, 1996

Presents a case study of the English of early missionaries operating in South Africa. The study characterizes the interlanguages of some German and Dutch missionaries, points out the disparity between the usage patterns found in missionary letters and modern linguists' characterizations of their abilities, and suggests missionary English as an…

Descriptors: Case Studies, Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries