Beefmoves: dissemination, diversity, and dynamics of English borrowings in a German hip hop forum

  • Authors:
  • Matt Garley;Julia Hockenmaier

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

  • Venue:
  • ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We investigate how novel English-derived words (anglicisms) are used in a German-language Internet hip hop forum, and what factors contribute to their uptake.