The wanderlust of German words and their pragmatic adaptation in English

This article explores pragmatic aspects of lexical borrowing, based on examples borrowing from German into British English. While English is widely studied, the focus sheds light a more unlikely source language. A cross-linguistic, corpus-based comparative analysis focuses contrasts in use post-1900 loans language and recipient Contrasts uses number these as well detailed borrowed prefix uber-/über-in show that may adopt specific are marginal it can also put loan to different than evident Such discussed result adaptation The de-contextualized its becomes re-contextualised which reflect communicative needs hence interest within language, partly or even entirely irrespective