PolEnglish Revisited. Leksyka angielska w polszczyźnie XXI wieku
PolEnglish Revisited. English Vocabulary in the 21st-century Polish Language

Author(s): Łukasz Jan Berezowski, Mikołaj Deckert
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Anglicisms; contact linguistics; English borrowings; English loanwords; language contact
Summary/Abstract: This volume deals with the influence of English lexical elements upon Polish, especially upon the units used in Internet discourse and in new media. Of particular interest here are the latest English borrowings – dating back to the turn of the 20th and the 21st century – both lexical and semantic. The aim of the present book is, therefore, to explore the scale of this impact upon Polish on the basis of a corpus compiled and organised in the form of a lexicon comprising 1,600 entries with definitions and examples from Internet websites, social media, forums and modern literature. An important contribution of the publication is to offer an experimental user-focused perspective on Anglicisms, sourcing input from a young generation of Polish speakers.

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