THE IMPACT OF ENGLISH ON THE SLOVAK LANGUAGE CULTURE
THE IMPACT OF ENGLISH ON THE SLOVAK LANGUAGE CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: In my research, I study the influence of English on our society, culture and mother tongue, therefore I will focus on the reasons leading to the use of English in the Slovak language. My research methodology is direct, I record all the changes found in the mass media which have a huge impact on the audience, and the language usage of the young generation. As I teach applied linguistics, i.e. I teach potential translators mainly in the economic field, and being a translator myself, the research of the language development is an inevitable part of my work. It is fashionable to use English expressions in our everyday lives even in such cases where we have our own Slovak expressions. The problem is when the use of English words in Slovak is exaggerated in the mass media When common people hear English words in Slovak sentences too often they may get accustomed to this fact and it may lead to a decline of our own language culture. In conclusion, I will summarize the situation as sometimes a bit “jeopardizing” the purity of our mother tongue, on the other hand as an unavoidable fact in the language development.

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