Anglicisms in German. The Description of the Loan-process

Carstensen, Broder; Meder, Gregor; Dörner, Andreas

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“…The scientific and technological progress, the emergence of new scientific directions, and the revision of the traditional scientific knowledge systems require forming new words to denote new concepts, processes, etc. Based on the material analysis and the research results of the linguists, it is possible to make a conclusion (Carstensen, 1992;Haspelmath, 2009;Rozen, 2000;Winford, 2010) that at the end of the 20 th centuryat the beginning of the 21 st century, borrowings become the primary source of replenishment and updating of the vocabulary of any language.…”

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“…In the broad sense, "borrowing" is regarded in connection with the theory of language contact, with the interaction of language systems as one of the ways for an enrichment of the language vocabulary (Haspelmath, 2009;Hock & Brian, 2009). The term "borrowing" is used in the narrow sense for indicating the process of an entry and adaptation of the vocabulary borrowed which is transferred from one language to another one as a result of language contacts but not as a result of historical (genetic) development for an improvement of the language as a means of communication and perception (Carstensen, 1992;Haugen, 1950).…”

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“…In addition to the linguistic factors indicated, the extralinguistic factors are also active here, in particular: the penetration of anglicisms into the German language vocabulary is indebted to the fact of recognizing the English language (its American English) as an international language (Carstensen, 1992). Anglicisms serve as a means of filling those holes that arise in connection with a conceptual space extension of the world model, which, in its turn, is the result of the scientific and technical progress of modern civilization.…”

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“…Modern linguistic science recognizes that one of the most important external factors of language changes and development is contacting of languages, which is one of the most powerful stimuli of language changes (Carstensen, 1992;Rozen, 2000;Siemund, 2008;Vennemann, 2011;Weinreich, 1979). Today, language contacts are regarded as one of the aspects of creative activities in a language.…”

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Functional Aspects of Interlingual Borrowings: Current Challenges

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A particular status of the English language as the language of international communication and connections between the nearly related English and German languages resulted in the emergence of many interlingual borrowings in the Modern English and German language vocabularies. The paper aims to consider the functioning of borrowings (loanwords) in the English and German languages. To reach the aim of the research and to carry out the tasks assigned, the following methods were used: a descriptive method, the method of correlation, componential analysis and, comparative semantic analysis. The paper focuses on linguistic and extralinguistic factors of the German and English interaction. Special attention is paid to clarifying the notion of borrowing in modern linguistic science. The word-formative calques and half-calques (hybrids), which differ from ordinary lexical borrowings by using partially borrowed lexical material, are identified in addition to direct lexical borrowings in the language subsystem under study. The paper demonstrates the significant influence of English borrowings on the structural-semantic qualities of German words, on various semantic changes, as well as on the participation of loanwords in the lexico-semantic variation: synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, and antonymy. The results of the research can also be used in the teaching and learning of both languages, in the course of lexicology or linguistics.

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Attention to multilingual job ads: an eye-tracking study on the use of English in German job ads

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Hilberink-Schulpen

2023

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In many non-English-speaking countries, English loanwords in job ads seem to be very common. The question is whether this linguistic choice is advantageous, especially when the job advertised does not involve working in an international environment. Previous research of English loanwords in job ads has revealed that their effect in terms of the evaluation of the company, the job and the ad is limited if effects can be shown at all. Suggestions that English loanwords draw readers’ attention because this language choice deviates from what readers expect and, in addition, take more processing time (because they are foreign) lack empirical evidence. The eye-tracking and behavioural data of our experiment did not provide any empirical evidence for the attention-drawing function of English loanwords nor an influence on their effectiveness in job ads geared to graduate students in Germany. We suggest that loanwords need a certain amount of processing to be identified as foreign. This means they are different from other salient cues that were shown to draw readers’ attention because they are not subject to automatic processes. In addition, our participants were sufficiently proficient in English so that differences in processing time were not reflected in their eye-movement data.

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Anglicisms in German. The Description of the Loan-process

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