NEGATIVE SEMANTIC TRANSFER IN MEDICAL LANGUAGE – A CASE STUDY
NEGATIVE SEMANTIC TRANSFER IN MEDICAL LANGUAGE – A CASE STUDY

Summary/Abstract: The growing influence of English on Romanian surely has its merits but also involves a number of problems. One such problem is that the ongoing and in many ways overwhelming process of anglicization of the Romanian medical language keeps bringing on ambiguities and even errors at different linguistic levels. This study focuses on an example of negative semantic transfer from the English word drug to its Romanian false friend drog.

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