English Influence upon Romanian in the Era of Globalization
English Influence upon Romanian in the Era of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: From the economic field to the technical, scientific, financial and cultural ones, not to mention everyday life, the highly disputed phenomenon of globalization impacted on all domains, the linguistic one being the less important by far. Linguistic globalization, more conspicuous nowadays than ever in Romania due to the political, social and cultural circumstances, meant the coming into use of words of English origin that either illustrate untranslatable notions or are mark of pseudo culture. Besides mentioning the reasons of this state of facts the paper brings on both these categories of English loans.

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