Italiano vero. Leksyka włoska w polszczyźnie XXI wieku
Italiano vero. Italian Vocabulary in the 21st-century Polish Language

Author(s): Łukasz Jan Berezowski, Joanna Ciesielka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Semantics, Pragmatics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: italianisms; contact linguistics; language contact; Italian borrowings; Italian loanwords; Italian culturemes; pseudoitalianisms
Summary/Abstract: This volume deals with the influence of Italian lexical elements upon Polish, especially upon the units used in Polish written sources. Of particular interest here are the latest Italian borrowings (Italianisms, culturemes, pseudoitalianisms, hybrid forms) – dating back to 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 organized in the form of a lexicon comprising over 2,500 entries with definitions and examples from works including fiction, non-fiction, specialized literature, newspapers and magazines as well as Internet sources and electronic media. The work is complemented by specific numerical and content data sets documenting conducted research as well as by extensive visual material.

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