Essays about: "Gabriella Sohl"

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  1. 1. Cuisine Linguistics of British and American English : Are the culinary vocabularies of British and American English converging or diverging?

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Gabriella Sohl; [2012]
    Keywords : language change; British English; American English; culinary vocabulary; sociolinguistics; history of the English language; divergence; convergence;

    Abstract : This study is intended to unveil whether the culinary vocabulary of British English and American English are likely to converge or diverge in the future, as a way of contributing to understanding the evolution of the English language and its varieties. The topic itself was founded in travels to America which were paired with nearly fifteen years of interaction with British English, leading to understanding that some (food) words come to have different meanings even in similar languages, and possibly also within the same language. READ MORE