ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an introduction to a method for the use of loan words and the basis for the communication needed to recognize, and addresses various aspects of loan words when people work in various global contexts. It examines the topic of loan words, and considers the role that English generally plays in other languages. The chapter reviews the adoption of English loan words in domains across genres, such as the specialized language used by, for instance, banks and stock exchanges. English started out as a major recipient of words from other languages, but the pendulum shifted to English being a language donor to other languages. The tussle between hegemony versus minority issues is probably most important in countries where English and one or more local languages exist in a society, for example, a former colony. English in language domains has been debated for two decades, and the related loss of local language has produced the concept of “domain loss”.
