The lexical influence of English on European languages

Pulcini, Virginia; Furiassi, Cristiano Gino; González, Félix Rodríguez

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“…In our study, we have collected one hundred and fifteen Anglicisms which were analyzed and classified following the classification by Pulcini et al (2012) shown in Figure 1 above.…”

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“…Over the years Spanish has welcomed the arrival of English words, just like other European languages (see Berns, 1995Berns, , 2009Fischer & Pulaczewska, 2008;Furiassi, Pulcini, & Rodríguez González, 2012;Görlach, 2001Görlach, , 2002Silaški, 2009;Vakareliyska & Kapatsinski, 2014), despite the fact that Anglicisms were often contemplated as threats to the purity of the recipient language 1 (henceforth, RL). The emergence of mass media brought a great number of Anglicized vocabulary into different languages.…”

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The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

Mykytka¹

2017

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Spanish is one of the languages where the presence of English borrowing is remarkable. Many studies have dealt with Anglicisms in Spanish, not only in the general lexicon (Rodríguez González & Lillo Buades, 1997;Pratt, 1980), but also in specialized areas (Balteiro, 2014;Laviosa, 2006;López Zurita, 2005). However, despite the growing number of English loanwords incorporated on a daily basis into the Spanish register of photography, no attention has, to our knowledge, been paid to this jargon so far. Thus, the present study analyzes the semantic changes and phonetic and morphological adaptations of Anglicisms in the Spanish register of photography. For these purposes, a sample of blogs on photography in Spanish, counting around 50,000 words, was compiled. The results show a great number and variety in English borrowings, which sometimes keep their English-looking form (selfie, catchlight, flash), or appear disguised through adaptations and calques (cámara réflex, megapíxeles, clave alta, doble exposición, fotoperiodismo), or as semantic loans (disparar, ruido, quemar). THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH ON THE SPANISH REGISTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDYVol. 5(1)(2017): Sažetak Španski je jedan od jezika u kojima je izuzetno zastupljeno pozajmljivanje iz engleskog. Mnoga istraživanja bavila su se anglicizmima u španskom, ne samo u opštoj leksici (Rodríguez González & Lillo Buades, 1997;Pratt, 1980), već i u specijalizovanim oblastima (Balteiro, 2014;Laviosa, 2006;López Zurita, 2005). Međutim, uprkos sve većem broju pozajmljenica iz engleskog koje svakodnevno prodiru u španski registar fotografije, do sada, koliko nam je poznato, ovaj žargon nije privukao pažnju istraživača. Zato u ovom radu analiziramo semantičke promene i fonetske i morfološke adaptacije anglicizama u registru fotografije u španskom jeziku. U ovu svrhu prikupljen je uzorak blogova o fotografiji na španskom od oko 50.000 reči. Rezultati ukazuju na veliki broj i raznolikost engleskih pozajmljenica, koje ponekad čuvaju oblik iz engleskog (selfie, catchlight, flash) ili su prikriveni putem adaptacija i kalkiranja (cámara réflex, megapíxeles, clave alta, doble exposición, fotoperiodismo) ili semantičkih pozajmljenica (disparar, ruido, quemar).Ključne reči leksičko pozajmljivanje, anglicizmi, španski, registar fotografije, engleski jezik nauke i struke.

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“…In our study, we have collected one hundred and fifteen Anglicisms which were analyzed and classified following the classification by Pulcini et al (2012) shown in Figure 1 above.…”

Section: Methodology Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

Mykytka¹

2017

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“…Following Haugen (1950), some authors (e.g. Busse 2001;Pulcini, Furiassi, González 2012) present a distinction between types of hybrid compounds. They include a division between loanblends and hybrid creations based on whether there is an English model available for the hybrid.…”

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Lexical hybridization of English and German elements: a comparison between spoken German and the language of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel

Hunt¹

2019

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The influence of English on German has resulted in not only the direct importation of a vast number of English loanwords but also their hybridization with native German elements. The most common types of language hybrids, or loanblends, using Haugen's (1950) terminology, in German include blended compounds containing one element from the source language and another from the receptor language (e.g. Businessbereich 'business sector' and Krafttraining 'strength training') in addition to blended derivations where autochthonous derivational affixes are attached to English stems (e.g. sportlich 'sporty' and rumsurfen 'to surf around'). This paper contributes to the investigation of how, and to what extent, English elements become morphologically embedded into German by analyzing the English-German hybrid formations from a corpus of everyday spoken German (42,429 types and 1,280,773 tokens) and the texts appearing in the Spiegel newsmagazine from the year 2000 (287,301 types and 5,202,583 tokens). General findings indicate that the most common form of hybridization is the compounding of English specifiers with German heads and much less the attachment of German morphemes (both derivational affixes and semi-affixes) to English stems in both spoken and written texts. These forms of hybridization demonstrate both the productive word formation processes of German as well as its contact-induced lexical enrichment beyond the mere direct borrowing of loanwords. However, when analyzed separately, the most frequently-occurring specifiers and heads were anglicisms. A slight preference for German affixation (affixes and semi-affixes) was found in the spoken corpus with the Spiegel corpus containing more English semi-affixes.

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“…(Gómez Capuz, 2004: 9) Due to the "worldliness of English", as Pennycook (1994: 33) calls it, or in like terms, the privileged linguistic status that English has over the rest of the world languages as a result of the globalization process we are experiencing in the twenty-first century (cf. Edwards, 1994;Brennan, 1997;Pennycook, 2001;Hjarvard, 2004;Pulcini et al, 2012), English has changed the status of many of the world languages, among which Hjarvard (2004: 76), for example, places different European and Afro-Asian tongues of a very diverse linguistic origin -Germanic (German), Romance (French and Spanish), Slavic (Russian) and Semitic (Arabic):…”

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Present-day Spanish fashion lexicon dresses up in English

Arrizabalaga

2017

RAEI

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Lexical borrowings can be regarded as one of the clearest and most direct consequences of any language contact situation. However, not all the borrowings that enter a language are alike. Since their entrance in a given language is motivated by different reasons, two general kinds of borrowings must be distinguished: necessary borrowings which name ideas and concepts for which the recipient language does not have any equivalent term; and superfluous borrowings which, on the contrary, refer to realities for which the recipient language already has equivalent terms. This paper focuses on the latter type. Specifically, it presents a diachronic corpus-based analysis of 14 English fashion terms with a clear Spanish lexical counterpart —blazer/‘chaqueta’, celebrity/‘famoso’, clutch/‘bolso de mano’, cool/‘de moda’, fashion/‘moda’, fashionable/‘de moda’, fashionista/ ‘adicto a la moda’, jeans/‘vaqueros’, nude/‘color carne’, photocall/‘sesión de fotos’, shorts/‘pantalones cortos’, sporty/‘deportivo’, trench/‘trinchera, gabardina’, and trendy/‘moderno’— in four Spanish corpora: the Corpus del Español, and the CORDE, CREA and CORPES XXI corpora. My objectives are twofold: firstly, to demonstrate to what extent these unnecessary Anglicisms are increasingly becoming part of the everyday contemporary Peninsular Spanish fashion lexicon; and secondly, to account for the three reasons that underlie their alleged constant entrance in twenty-first century Peninsular Spanish: (i) globalization and the impact of English on Spanish; (ii) the highly visible presence of English in the field of advertising; (iii) and the selling power of English.

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The lexical influence of English on European languages

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The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

Lexical hybridization of English and German elements: a comparison between spoken German and the language of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel

Present-day Spanish fashion lexicon dresses up in English

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