THE REFLECTION OF XENISMS WITH ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY INTO SPORTING DOMAIN
THE REFLECTION OF XENISMS WITH ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY INTO SPORTING DOMAIN

Summary/Abstract: Languageisa ”living body” into a continuous movement by means of words and structures that we borrow from different languages. We try to bring into light the manner in which borrowings that have English Etymon are going to influence our Romanian lexis. In this way, we choose different examples from sporting newspapers in order to reveal the phonetical adaptation, the morphological and the semantic evolution or involution of English words into our lexis. We know that sporting domain is into a continuous enrichment of words that have different origins, especially: English one. Our purpose is to reveal the manner in which English words from sporting language are going to influence Romanian vocabulary and to bring into light the consequences of the English influence upon Romanian lexis. We select, from different sporting contexts, words that have unique and multiple etymology and analyse them into Romanian from different linguistic viewpoints: phonetic, morphologic, semantic and stylistic.

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