Anglicisms in German media: Exploring catachrestic and non-catachrestic innovations in radio station imaging

Schaefer, Sarah Josefine

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2019.01.002

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“…The description of Anglicisms was conducted following a classification of loans into catachrestic (C) and non-catachrestic (NC) (Onysko & Winter-Froemel, 2011;Schaefer, 2019), which is a replacement of a traditional distinction between 'necessary' and 'luxury' loans (e.g. Symon, 2016).…”

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Anglicismes : variétés diatopiques et genres textuels

2022

Espaces Linguistiques

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Research on Anglicisms is gaining ground among scholars working in general linguisticsespecially contact linguistics-but also in lexicology, phraseology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and translation studies. The development of new technologies and the omnipresence of the internet and social media on a global scale over the last twenty years have boosted significantly the borrowing and loan translation of thousands of English words and phrases to different degrees depending on recipient languages and cultures.The present issue of Espaces linguistiques is dedicated to Anglicisms with a focus on their presence in diatopic varieties and textual genres: it indeed includes four articles-one written in French and three in English-respectively dealing with four recipient languages (or language varieties), i.e.

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Anglicismes : variétés diatopiques et genres textuels

2022

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“…A number of studies have explored the use of English words in the media (Al–Athwary, 2016, in Arab Gulf states newspapers; Chesley, 2010, in French newspapers; Kuang, 2009, in Japanese magazines; Panić–Kavgić, 2017, in Serbian newspapers and magazines; Robinson, 2006, in an Italian newspaper; Rodríguez–Medina, 2016, on Spanish TV commercials; Schaefer, 2019, on the radio in Germany; Sedeeq, 2018, in a Kurdish newspaper; Tatsioka, 2008, on Greek TV shows; Zenner, Speelman & Geeraerts, 2015 on a Dutch TV programme), but the connection between loanword use and identity has not been examined thoroughly in the literature.…”

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English loanword use in Greek online women's magazines

Tatsioka¹

2022

English Today

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Owing to the extensive spread of English around the globe, English words have penetrated the lexicon of many languages. Modern Greek has been no exception as various English loanwords are used daily by its native speakers. The present paper discusses the use of English loanwords on the Greek web and more specifically in three online women's magazines. The focus, however, is not on all types of borrowings, but solely on what Myers–Scotton (2002: 239) calls core borrowings, which are defined as ‘words that more or less duplicate already existing words in the L1’. Essentially, core borrowings do not serve genuine communicative needs as they do not fill any lexical gaps in the speakers’ native language (Bybee, 2015). Nonetheless, they are borrowed as a result of the cultural pressure exerted by the more prestigious and dominant donor language (Myers–Scotton, 2006). On the other hand, cultural borrowings are words used for new objects and concepts for which there is no equivalent in the recipient language. It should also be noted that the loanwords examined in this paper have not been morphologically or orthographically assimilated into the Modern Greek language, but maintain their distinctive foreign features.

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“…I will focus on German radio media in this paper since Germany is one of the localities in the expanding circle where present-day dynamics of mobile Englishes can be observed (Schneider, 2014;Onysko, 2016). The German radio media are not only affected by global cultural flows and the associated diffusion of English but are also part of the dissemination processes of new words, mostly in the form of anglicisms in Germany, as well as of Anglo-American popular culture including music, trends and technological advances (Schaefer, 2019(Schaefer, , 2021a.…”

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“…While I focus on the embeddedness of English linguistic resources in semiotic assemblages in the two examples below, there are also other factors that shape the use of global Englishes by German radio journalists, which I have elaborated on in previous studies. These include broadly speaking, the individual journalist (including his/her language perceptions) (see Schaefer, 2021a), the media organisation (including radio format, genre and domain) (see Schaefer, 2019Schaefer, , 2021a, the broadcasting system (public service vs. private radio stations) and the global/cultural background (see Schaefer, 2021b).…”

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Global Englishes and the Semiotics of German Radio—Encouraging the Listener's Visual Imagination Through Translingual and Transmodal Practices

Schaefer

2022

Front. Commun.

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Due to increasing mediatisation of societies and the global diffusion of English, previous research has paid a great deal of attention to the use of English in contact with other linguistic resources. Traditionally, the focus in studies on global Englishes is predominantly on verbal resources, which are often examined in media corpora. The recent paradigmatic shift towards a conceptualisation of language as a social practice, however, also acknowledges other resources such as music, images and sounds as part of semiotic assemblages in the process of meaning-making. This paper contributes to this current debate and argues for a more holistic view on language illustrated by examples of the use of global Englishes in German radio media texts. The examples show the complexities of translingual and transmodal practices in mass media communication and how English linguistic resources are deeply entangled with other semiotic resources and thereby locally appropriated in semiotic assemblages to stimulate the listener's visual imagination and achieve communicative success in a non-visual medium.

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Anglicisms in German media: Exploring catachrestic and non-catachrestic innovations in radio station imaging

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Anglicismes : variétés diatopiques et genres textuels

Anglicismes : variétés diatopiques et genres textuels

English loanword use in Greek online women's magazines

Global Englishes and the Semiotics of German Radio—Encouraging the Listener's Visual Imagination Through Translingual and Transmodal Practices

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