Title: | Loanwords and loan-translations – loss of identity or achievement of prestige? |
Author: | Liliana Florina Andronache |
Publication: | The Proceedings of the International Conference Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity. Section: Language and Discourse, 2, p. 150-155 |
ISBN: | 978-606-93691-3-5 |
Editors: | Iulian Boldea |
Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
Year: | 2015 |
Abstract: | The paper aims to approach both major advantages of loanwords and loan-translations, i.e. prestige and modernity in one’s speech, and a major disadvantage, which seems to be the loss of identity of the speaker’s discourse once loanwords and loan-translations become part of it. |
Key words: | loanwords, loan-translations, advantages, disadvantages, English |
Language: | English |
Links: | pdf html |
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References in this publication: 1
1 | Florina Andronache | “Itangliano” or the loss of national identity of the Italian language | GIDNI, 1, 288-293 | 2014 | pdf html |
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