Czynniki wpływające na przyswajanie anglicyzmów. Studium terminologii żonglerskiej
Factors influencing the adoption of anglicisms. A study of juggling terminology

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to determine the factors influencing the adoption of lexicalborrowings from English into the terminology of Polish jugglers. Faced with the temptationto adopt an English term, users may resort to one of three main strategies: they maytry to find or coin a Polish equivalent and use the equivalent exclusively, they may usethe anglicism and the Polish equivalent interchangeably, or they may use the anglicismexclusively. The choice of the strategy is motivated mainly by: 1) the availability of thePolish equivalent, 2) syntactic and morphological simplicity of the borrowing and thePolish equivalent, 3) the degree of entrenchment of the Polish equivalent; 3) the degreeof specialization the anglicism. In general, users tend to prefer simpler, more entrenched,and more specialized terms.

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