Domestication of Anglicisms as a Problem of Spelling and Attitudes or the Case of puzzle/pucle Cover Image

Zdomácňovanie anglicizmov ako problém pravopisu a postojov alebo Prípad puzzle/pucle
Domestication of Anglicisms as a Problem of Spelling and Attitudes or the Case of puzzle/pucle

Author(s): Alexandra Jarošová
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Anglicisms in Slovak; adaptation of Anglicisms; Slovak orthography; users‘ attitudes towards adaptation

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the study deals with the question of how the domestication of Anglicisms is related to the ethnostructural and orthographic setting of the receiving, i.e., from the point of view of adaptation, the dominant language. Attention is also drawn to the fact that the degree of adaptation differs significantly in individual thematic groups of words and communication spheres. The second part explains how this disparity is related to the naming function of the borrowed words, but also to the attitudes of Slovak speakers. The third part of the study reflects the increasing number of intolerant attitudes towards adapted forms of Anglicisms naming common realities. This phenomenon and its consequences in the form of a weakening of the principle of dominance of the receiving language is demonstrated in the textual functioning of the unadapted Anglicism puzzle and its adapted variant pucle.

  • Issue Year: 88/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 42-62
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Slovak