The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beauty
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Regina Morin
Abstract
This comparative study of loanwords in the language of technology and of fashion and beauty in Spanish shows that their behavior is starkly different in these semantic fields. Data from Spanish language web pages show that lexical borrowing is more frequent in fashion than in technology, borrowability of parts of speech varies across these fields, technology loanwords are almost exclusively Anglicisms but in fashion they come also from other languages and have a more complex etymology, there is greater morphological integration among technology than fashion loanwords, and borrowing in technology is often accompanied by a kind of metalinguistic commentary that reflects attitudes and beliefs that is not seen in the fashion data.
Abstract
This comparative study of loanwords in the language of technology and of fashion and beauty in Spanish shows that their behavior is starkly different in these semantic fields. Data from Spanish language web pages show that lexical borrowing is more frequent in fashion than in technology, borrowability of parts of speech varies across these fields, technology loanwords are almost exclusively Anglicisms but in fashion they come also from other languages and have a more complex etymology, there is greater morphological integration among technology than fashion loanwords, and borrowing in technology is often accompanied by a kind of metalinguistic commentary that reflects attitudes and beliefs that is not seen in the fashion data.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Language acquisition
- The development of intonation in L2 Spanish 11
- Insights into the cognition of mood selection in L2 learners of Spanish 33
- The licensing of wh-in-situ questions 53
- What derivational suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language courses? 75
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Part II. Theoretical and descriptive approaches
- The seem-class verb paradigm and restructuring in Romance 97
- The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift 119
- The aspectual structure of the adjective 137
- Mood in future-framed adverbials 161
- Syntactic and prosodic marking of subject focus in American English and Peninsular Spanish 183
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Part III. Language contact and variation
- Demystifying Salvadoran [s θ ] 207
- Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation 229
- Subject-predicate code-switching 249
- The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beauty 265
- Futurity and probability in Spanish as a heritage language 285
- Examining the (mini-) variable swarm in the Spanish of the Southeast 303
- Casting light on the Spanish creole debate 327
- Index 343
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Language acquisition
- The development of intonation in L2 Spanish 11
- Insights into the cognition of mood selection in L2 learners of Spanish 33
- The licensing of wh-in-situ questions 53
- What derivational suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language courses? 75
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Part II. Theoretical and descriptive approaches
- The seem-class verb paradigm and restructuring in Romance 97
- The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift 119
- The aspectual structure of the adjective 137
- Mood in future-framed adverbials 161
- Syntactic and prosodic marking of subject focus in American English and Peninsular Spanish 183
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Part III. Language contact and variation
- Demystifying Salvadoran [s θ ] 207
- Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation 229
- Subject-predicate code-switching 249
- The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beauty 265
- Futurity and probability in Spanish as a heritage language 285
- Examining the (mini-) variable swarm in the Spanish of the Southeast 303
- Casting light on the Spanish creole debate 327
- Index 343
