ANGLICISMS IN AMERICAN SPANISH. SPECIAL VIEW ON THE MEDIA
ANGLICISMS IN AMERICAN SPANISH. SPECIAL VIEW ON THE MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the Anglicisms used in print press from Latin America. We are interested in to what extent the Anglicisms encountered in print media from Latin America are characteristic to the Hispanic-American space or if they enter in the category of general Anglicisms also used in peninsular Spanish. The Corpus on which we based our analysis consists of Anglicisms excerpted from some of the most prestigious journals from Latin America and Spain. We analyzed, during the year 2007, four newspapers on electronic format, from three states from Latin America and from Spain: El Universal – Mexico, El Tiempo – Columbia; La Nación – Argentina and El País – Spain. Once the corpus was created, in order to formulate appreciations of qualitative and quantitative nature regarding the distribution and productivity of the elements from our inventory we appealed to the three criteria of selection proposed in the study El español de América (Marius Sala, 1982), elaborated by the team of hispanists from the Linguistics Institute “Iorgu Iordan–Al. Rosetti”: geographical criterion, productivity criterion and semantic richness criterion.

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