Anglicismos en el español contemporáneo – un análisis etimológico
Anglicisms in contemporary Spanish – an etymological analysis

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on current anglicisms in Spanish, but offers also a short theoretical view on the contact between Spanish and English and also between Spanish and German, Arabic, French and Italian, following Dworkin’s perspective (2012), who wrote a complex history of the Spanish vocabulary. The analysis part of the paper represents an etymological analysis on five terms coming from English, which involved searches in different corpuses and dictionaries, like the Historical Dictionary Corpus (HDC) and the Dictionary of the Spanish Language by Real Academia Espanola. The anglicisms are relatively new lexical entries in Spanish, and their use was accentuated at the beginning of the 21st century, for example: bloguero, chat/chatear, e-mail, beisbol, sueter.

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