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Chapter 14. Incorporation degrees of selected economics-related Anglicisms in Italian

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The Anglicization of European Lexis

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Abstract

In spite of the universally acknowledged worldwide influence of English on our native languages, once an English word crosses the borders to become an Anglicism, it undergoes a process of incorporation into the receiving language. This paper concerns the economics-related Anglicisms used in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and suggests that it is possible to identify four different patterns: drawn from a pool of more than ten million tokens, the eighty words selected exemplify three stages of foreign-word incorporation, from hapax legomena to fully incorporated and commonly recognized Anglicisms of specialized discourse.

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Abstract

In spite of the universally acknowledged worldwide influence of English on our native languages, once an English word crosses the borders to become an Anglicism, it undergoes a process of incorporation into the receiving language. This paper concerns the economics-related Anglicisms used in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and suggests that it is possible to identify four different patterns: drawn from a pool of more than ten million tokens, the eighty words selected exemplify three stages of foreign-word incorporation, from hapax legomena to fully incorporated and commonly recognized Anglicisms of specialized discourse.

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Chapters in this book

Prelim pages i
Table of contents v
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
The lexical influence of English on European languages 1
Section I. Exploring Anglicisms
Chapter 1. Fair play to them 27
Chapter 2. Proposing a pragmatic distinction for lexical Anglicisms 43
Chapter 3. Investigating gender variation of English loanwords in German 65
Chapter 4. The collection of Anglicisms 91
Chapter 5. Semi-automatic approaches to Anglicism detection in Norwegian corpus data 111
Chapter 6. Lexicographic description of recent Anglicisms in Serbian 131
Chapter 7. Anglicisms in Armenian 149
Section II. English-induced phraseology
Chapter 8. Phraseology in flux 169
Chapter 9. Multi-word loan translations and semantic borrowings from English in French journalistic discourse 199
Chapter 10. Newly-coined Anglicisms in contemporary Spanish 217
Chapter 11. Der Elefant im Raum… 239
Chapter 12. English influence on Polish proverbial language 261
Section III. Anglicisms in specialized discourse
Chapter 13. English direct loans in European football lexis 281
Chapter 14. Incorporation degrees of selected economics-related Anglicisms in Italian 305
Chapter 15. Anglicisms in the discourse of Alitalia’s bailout in the Italian press 325
Author index 343
Language index 347
Subject index 349

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.174.20gau

Chapters in this book

Prelim pages i
Table of contents v
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
The lexical influence of English on European languages 1
Section I. Exploring Anglicisms
Chapter 1. Fair play to them 27
Chapter 2. Proposing a pragmatic distinction for lexical Anglicisms 43
Chapter 3. Investigating gender variation of English loanwords in German 65
Chapter 4. The collection of Anglicisms 91
Chapter 5. Semi-automatic approaches to Anglicism detection in Norwegian corpus data 111
Chapter 6. Lexicographic description of recent Anglicisms in Serbian 131
Chapter 7. Anglicisms in Armenian 149
Section II. English-induced phraseology
Chapter 8. Phraseology in flux 169
Chapter 9. Multi-word loan translations and semantic borrowings from English in French journalistic discourse 199
Chapter 10. Newly-coined Anglicisms in contemporary Spanish 217
Chapter 11. Der Elefant im Raum… 239
Chapter 12. English influence on Polish proverbial language 261
Section III. Anglicisms in specialized discourse
Chapter 13. English direct loans in European football lexis 281
Chapter 14. Incorporation degrees of selected economics-related Anglicisms in Italian 305
Chapter 15. Anglicisms in the discourse of Alitalia’s bailout in the Italian press 325
Author index 343
Language index 347
Subject index 349

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