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Súčasné trendy v preberaní cudzích slov (na ruskom a slovenskom materiáli)
Current Trends in Transference of Foreign Words (on Russian and Slovak materials)

Author(s): Dezider Kollár
Subject(s): Language studies
Published by: Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Linguistics; Comparative linguistics; Lexicology; Language history; Language contacts; Language teaching theory; Language interference;

Summary/Abstract: The author reflects on the very term of "word transference", considering it currently misleading as it induces an impression that in an interaction of two languages the transferee is the active player, while in reality it is the transferor imposing its vocabulary under the strong cultural, economic, or political pressure (both external and internal). The author also reflects on the contemporary ways and methods of transference, on individual language layers and their sensitivity to the foreign language pressures, and consequent language development and language practice of the transferee language.

  • Issue Year: 36/2001
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 108-113
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Slovak
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