Blending, from English to Arabic

Product Description This book examines the interesting linguistic phenomenon of blending, where new words are formed to enrich the lexicon of a language. Blending in English has been thoroughly investigated to the extent that researchers and scholars refer to the results of these investigations when discussing this phenomenon in their respective languages. This book builds on existing studies by investigating blending in Arabic, and adopts a linguistic, systematic, and quantitative approach to discussing and analysing this process. It presents practical findings and prepares the road for further investigation in this field. About the Author Ekhlas Ali Mohsin received an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Baghdad and a PhD in Linguistics and English Language from Newcastle University, UK. She previously worked for the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research at the University of Baghdad and the University of Kufa, Iraq. She is the author of a number of publications on the teaching of English, translation, and linguistics.