English, the Internet and computer terminology in Macedonia.
This research report focuses on the use of English loanwords related to the Internet and computer technology. A corpus-based approach was used to analyze a total of 33,193 words including 11,063 tokens found on 10 Macedonian business websites. Type/token ratios were obtained for 4 different types of...
| Publicado en: | World Englishes Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 373 - 388 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2007
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