LEKSYKA EKONOMICZNA W POLSZCZYŹNIE: DYNAMIKA ROZWOJU I ZAKRES WPŁYWU JĘZYKÓW NIESŁOWIAŃSKICH
ECONOMIC LEXIS IN THE POLISH LANGUAGE: DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS AND EXTENT OF THE INFLUENCE OF NON-SLAVIC LANGUAGES

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the observation is the Polish economic lexis used in the discourse on economy: agriculture, industry, trade, and financial operations. Its present composition, with a considerable share of borrowings from English, is an effect of the development of the capitalist socioeconomic formation. New symbols have layered on top of the abundant lexical substratum composed of native units as well as Germanisms and Latinisms, including those of Greek provenance, which has been gradually enriched over the centuries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the development trends in the lexical layer that have evolved into the current Polish economic discourse, with a particular focus on the dynamics, extent, and nature of foreign-language influences. The statistical comparison of the lexical resource of three journalistic texts of similar volumes, representative of successive periods of the development of the economic discourse in the Polish language, permits the ascertainment that the broadest assimilation of non-Slavic components into the Polish economic lexis took place in the 19th century.

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