naturalization

Examples

• All

• Naturalization occurs when a non-native word adjusts its pronunciation to blend seamlessly into the borrowing language.

• Thus, by naturalization, nature is not only taken in by Japanese cuisine, but taken over.

  Academic text (1991)

• This naturalization of food is rendered through two main devices.

  Academic text (1991)

• CASA asserted that naturalization, and surely "Americanization," were largely irrelevant in a society that refused to recognize the full rights of citizenship for its ethnic and racial minorities.

  Academic text (1991)

• Once public officials, such as Raymond Crist of the federal Bureau of Naturalization, employers, union leaders, and their counterparts in an array of other organizations began to define the Americanization issue in educational terms, that is, by 1915, women educators necessarily had significant voices.

  Academic text (1991)

• Another mechanism implied in my use of this notion is that of "naturalization": it "emphasizes the fact that the strange or deviant is brought within a discursive order by the reader and thus made to seem natural" (Culler 161).

  Academic text (2009)

• The naturalization of foreign words into English often changes their pronunciation to fit the language's sounds.

Synonyms

A

Anglicization

vsnaturalization

• Specialized

1 8.1

A change that makes words, names, and customs more English

focuses only on adapting pronunciation to fit the target language's sound system

Compounds

I

Immigration and Naturalization Service

• Formal

7 4.9

A former United States government office that handled immigration and becoming a citizen

How Adapted

naturalization

• Specialized

7.4

adaptation

64 3.7

transcription

8 3.9

borrowing

10 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology