Anglicisms and word axiology in homosexual language

Crespo‐Fernández, Eliecer; Luján-García, Carmen

doi:10.1075/resla.30.1.04cre

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“…Nowak 2020: 117). In a 2017 study based on Diccionario gay-lésbico (2008b) and Nuevo diccionario de anglicismos (1997), Crespo-Fernández & Luján-García (2017) examine the axiological values of 250 Spanish homosexual anglicisms of various types. The authors found lexical loans (including clippings and acronyms) and pseudo-anglicisms to be the most frequent types of anglicisms, with covert loans, hybrids, and adapted loans being less common.…”

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Polish LGBTQ+-Related Anglicisms in a Language Contact Perspective

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2021

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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Research on anglicisms in Polish has nearly a century-long tradition, yet it was Jacek Fisiak’s 1960s–1980s studies on English loanwords that initiated continuous academic interest in anglicisms, coinciding with more intensive English-Polish language contact in post-war Poland. While English loans have been well-researched in the last four decades, the ongoing intensity of English lexical influence on Polish, yielding not only new loans but also new loan types, calls for further studies, especially in the area of quickly developing professional jargons and sociolects. The influx of English-sourced lexis is reflected in the diversity of semantic fields, whose number has grown from 18 (identified in Słownik warszawski 1900–1927 ) to 45 (Mańczak-Wohlfeld 1995). A semantic field that has been underresearched in studies on Polish anglicisms is the LGBTQ+-related lexis, which has drawn from American English gayspeak, shaped by the post-Stonewall gay rights movement initiated in the 1970s. The language data analysed in this study have been collected in a two-stage procedure, which included manual extraction of anglicisms sourced in a diversified corpus of LGBTQ+-related written texts, published in Polish between 2004 and 2020. The second stage involved oral interviews which served a verification function. The aim of this study is to contribute to the lexicographic attempts at researching English-sourced LGBTQ+-related vocabulary in Polish through its identification, excerption, and classification. Assuming an onomasiological approach to borrowing, we arrange LGBTQ+-related anglicisms on a decreasing foreignness scale to identify the borrowing techniques adopted by the recipient language speakers in the loan nativization process. We also address issues related to the identification and semantics of loans, and sketch areas of research on loan pragmatic functions that need further studies.

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Polish LGBTQ+-Related Anglicisms in a Language Contact Perspective

Witalisz

2021

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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“…The penetration of anglicisms in various fields has been extensively examined by several authors in Spain. For example, the following fields have been explored: beauty and fashion (Luján-García 2017; Tejedor Martínez 2017); sports (Rodríguez González 2012; Rodríguez Medina 2016); TV commercials (García-Morales et al 2016); marketing (López Zurita 2018); toys and games (Luján-García 2015); even areas such as drugs (Rodríguez González 1994) and sex (Crespo-Fernández andLuján-García 2017, 2018). All these authors have reported that there is a remarkable number of anglicisms in Spanish, and that they are used with different functions.…”

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Lifelong Learning and ESP Vocabulary: Reflections in Telecommunications and ICT

García-Sánchez

Luján-García

2020

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This paper examines the building of a glossary of technical terms by a sample of master’s degree students in the professional field of Telecommunications Engineering. To achieve this aim, linguistic data was extracted from the European MACbioIDi INTERREG Project with the aim of creating a collaborative bilingual, English- Spanish glossary. The glossary is used to foster vocabulary learning strategies for ELF/ESP learners and teachers of English. The study, designed for lifelong learning education and set in an ESP context of ICT and Telecommunications, shows (i) how a glossary building task can take the form of collaborative and reflective vocabulary learning projects in ESP, (ii) the learners’ identification of anglicisms in their professional domains, and (iii) samples of writing products stemming from building the glossary.

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“…Furthermore, nowadays, probably due to the awareness of actual usage by native speakers, the literature on Anglicisms has taken a turn towards a neutral and purely lexical or pragmatic description of Anglicisms (Andersen, 2014) in the different fields in which Anglicisms are highly attested (see, for example, Gómez Capuz 2004: 23-24). Hence, works like Rodríguez González (1999,2002,2013) and Rodríguez Medina ( 2000), amongst others, account for the presence of English loanwords in general European Spanish, while others concentrate on specialized fields, namely, health science (Alcaraz Ariza, 2000); information technology (Bolaños & Luján, 2010); economy (López Zurita, 2005); legal system (Sánchez & Durán, 2002;Campos, 2011); advertising (Luján García, 2010; Rodríguez Medina, 2016; García Morales, González ; media (Rodríguez Segura, 1999); film and comedies (García Morales, 2009;Gómez Capuz, 2001); sports (Balteiro, 2011b;Rodríguez González, 2012;Campos-Pardillos, 2015 and; fashion and beauty (Balteiro & Campos, 2012;Balteiro, 2014;Díez-Arroyo, 2015, 2016a, 2016b), as we shall see below; and even on drugs (Rodríguez González, 1994); and sex and sexuality (Crespo & Luján, 2017), amongst many others.…”

Section: Anglicisms In European Spanishmentioning

confidence: 99%

Non-pronominal uses of it: a case study in women’s fashion magazines

Balteiro¹

2018

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The use of English as a global language has largely affected other languages, both in general and specialized areas, particularly at the lexical level due to the massive borrowing of English words. Anglicisms are most visible in the language of fashion, where they are highly appreciated and associated to prestige and "coolness", apart from linguistically representing the rapid advances and modernization of fashion that sometimes make languages unable to cope with the speed with which extralinguistic realities change. The present study, based on a sample of over four million words from leading fashion magazines published in Spanish, focuses on the use of it in its non-pronominal uses, that is, it aims at identifying and describing the adjectival uses of it which may be either directly taken from English in short phrases or compounds like it girl, or adapted to Spanish linguistic contexts as in "calzado it", "más it", "la it prenda". Furthermore, the study also reveals new uses of it, or rather pseudo-English uses that appear in Spanish fashion magazines and which are the result of different linguistic phenomena. In particular, nominal uses like "la 'it' del mes", "todas las it" or "nuestras its favoritas" have been detected.

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Anglicisms and word axiology in homosexual language

Cited by 21 publications

References 11 publications

Polish LGBTQ+-Related Anglicisms in a Language Contact Perspective

Polish LGBTQ+-Related Anglicisms in a Language Contact Perspective

Lifelong Learning and ESP Vocabulary: Reflections in Telecommunications and ICT

Non-pronominal uses of it: a case study in women’s fashion magazines

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