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Englisches im Gegenwartsdeutschen der Touristikbranche
English in the contemporary German of tourism industry

Author(s): Monika Kowalonek-Janczarek, Pola Kawęcka
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Anglicism; loanword; hybrid nominal compound; tourism industry

Summary/Abstract: The influence of English on German has grown in the last decades and is likely to continue. The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of Anglicisms in the travel maga-zine Lonely Planet Traveller Deutschland (October, 2014). The particular focus is on the parts of speech and word formation types they represent. First we make an attempt to define the terms loanword and Anglicism. In the second part we present and discuss the results of our corpus linguistic study. The findings of the study show the dominance of nouns in the analysed Angli-cisms (especially hybrid nominal compounds). The research can be of significance for further studies on the language of tourism industry.

  • Issue Year: 42/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 119-132
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: German
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