English as lingua franca and English in Europe

Berns, Margie

doi:10.1111/j.1467-971x.2009.01578.x

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“…Over the years Spanish has welcomed the arrival of English words, just like other European languages (see Berns, 1995Berns, , 2009Fischer & Pulaczewska, 2008;Furiassi, Pulcini, & Rodríguez González, 2012;Görlach, 2001Görlach, , 2002Silaški, 2009;Vakareliyska & Kapatsinski, 2014), despite the fact that Anglicisms were often contemplated as threats to the purity of the recipient language 1 (henceforth, RL). The emergence of mass media brought a great number of Anglicized vocabulary into different languages.…”

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The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

Mykytka¹

2017

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Spanish is one of the languages where the presence of English borrowing is remarkable. Many studies have dealt with Anglicisms in Spanish, not only in the general lexicon (Rodríguez González & Lillo Buades, 1997;Pratt, 1980), but also in specialized areas (Balteiro, 2014;Laviosa, 2006;López Zurita, 2005). However, despite the growing number of English loanwords incorporated on a daily basis into the Spanish register of photography, no attention has, to our knowledge, been paid to this jargon so far. Thus, the present study analyzes the semantic changes and phonetic and morphological adaptations of Anglicisms in the Spanish register of photography. For these purposes, a sample of blogs on photography in Spanish, counting around 50,000 words, was compiled. The results show a great number and variety in English borrowings, which sometimes keep their English-looking form (selfie, catchlight, flash), or appear disguised through adaptations and calques (cámara réflex, megapíxeles, clave alta, doble exposición, fotoperiodismo), or as semantic loans (disparar, ruido, quemar). THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH ON THE SPANISH REGISTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDYVol. 5(1)(2017): Sažetak Španski je jedan od jezika u kojima je izuzetno zastupljeno pozajmljivanje iz engleskog. Mnoga istraživanja bavila su se anglicizmima u španskom, ne samo u opštoj leksici (Rodríguez González & Lillo Buades, 1997;Pratt, 1980), već i u specijalizovanim oblastima (Balteiro, 2014;Laviosa, 2006;López Zurita, 2005). Međutim, uprkos sve većem broju pozajmljenica iz engleskog koje svakodnevno prodiru u španski registar fotografije, do sada, koliko nam je poznato, ovaj žargon nije privukao pažnju istraživača. Zato u ovom radu analiziramo semantičke promene i fonetske i morfološke adaptacije anglicizama u registru fotografije u španskom jeziku. U ovu svrhu prikupljen je uzorak blogova o fotografiji na španskom od oko 50.000 reči. Rezultati ukazuju na veliki broj i raznolikost engleskih pozajmljenica, koje ponekad čuvaju oblik iz engleskog (selfie, catchlight, flash) ili su prikriveni putem adaptacija i kalkiranja (cámara réflex, megapíxeles, clave alta, doble exposición, fotoperiodismo) ili semantičkih pozajmljenica (disparar, ruido, quemar).Ključne reči leksičko pozajmljivanje, anglicizmi, španski, registar fotografije, engleski jezik nauke i struke.

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The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

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2017

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“…While the World Englishes paradigm has put tremendous effort into demonstrating how national outer circle Englishes differ from each other and from inner circle Englishes on a formal level, ELF research has given primacy to functional descriptions and qualitative analyses of contextual language use. Studies dealing with ELF commonly stress the interdependency of form and function and have adhered to the credo that form regularly follows function (Berns 2009;Canagarajah 2007;Seidlhofer 2009a: 241).…”

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A typologically based view on relativisation in English as a European lingua franca

Motschenbacher

2013

European Journal of Applied Linguistics

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This study intends to shed light on the internal linguistic hybridity of English as a European lingua franca. Based on typological considerations relating to Europeanness, it explores the heterogeneity exhibited by relativisation practices in European ELF talk. An overview of central theoretical aspects in research on the status of English in Europe highlights the tension between work thatinspired by the Kachruvian World Englishes framework -aims at studying structural features to test the plausibility of "Euro-English" as a variety and work that places a stronger focus on functional aspects of ELF -a research strand that has gained much greater momentum in recent years. The empirical part presents an in-depth study of relativisation in European ELF, using data from Eurovision Song Contest press conferences. The analysis tests the impact of six variables on relativiser choice quantitatively: syntactic function of relativiser, humanness of antecedent, L1 background, active speaker participation, European region and EU status. Relativisation practices of European ELF speakers turn out to be subject to a whole range of influences that contest the notion of a Euro-English variety. The results rather suggest a processual conceptualisation of variation as influenced by competing linguistic ideologies and document the presence of European prototypicality effects.Keywords: English as a lingua franca, Europe, relativisation, language typology, hybridity Zusammenfassung: Die vorliegende Untersuchung verfolgt das Ziel, die interne sprachliche Hybridität des Englischen als europäischer Linga Franca zu beschreiben. In Anlehnung an sprachtypologische Überlegungen zu europäischer Typizität wird die Heterogenität in Augenschein genommen, die sich in den Relativisierungspraktiken europäischer ELF-SprecherInnen manifestiert. Ein Überblick über theoretische Diskussionen zum Status des Englischen in Europa fördert die Spannung zwischen zwei Hauptströmungen zutage: zum einen Forschung in der Tradition des Kachruschen World Englishes Paradigmas, die sich mit strukturellen Merkmalen befasst, um die Plausibilität des "Euro-Englischen" als Varietät zu testen; und zum anderen Studien, die sich stärker auf funktionale Aspekte des Englischen als Lingua Franca konzentrieren -eine Forschungsrichtung, die in den letzten Jahren stark an Bedeutung gewonnen hat. Im empirischen Teil wird eine Detailstudie zur Relativisierung im Englischen als europäischer Lingua In order to counter the claim that the spread of English in Europe constitutes an example of Anglophone linguistic imperialism (see, for example, Phillipson 1992), House (2003 has used the distinction between "languages of identification" and "languages of communication" (originally taken from Hüllen 1992) to explain that English is not a killer language that ousts other European languages. According to her, a speaker's L1 serves as a language of ethnic/national identification. English as a foreign language, on the other hand, generally fulfils the pragmatic function of communicating with ...

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“…In other words, the emergence of ELF is in keeping with the heightened sociolinguistic profile of English in Europe where English is traditionally seen as a foreign language. Berns (2009) pointed out that the growing omnipresence of English in Europe can be classified into four broad areas of functions for its users: the innovative, interpersonal, instrumental and institutional (administrative). The innovative function refers to numerous and varied creative uses of English appearing in advertising and through other media formats such as popular music, blogs, chat rooms or instant messaging.…”

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English as a Lingua Franca in Flanders

Poel

2011

ETC

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This article reports on a study that examines the attitudes of 69 Flemish university students towards the emerging conceptualization of English as a lingua franca (ELF) on the basis of a questionnaire survey. Built on the notion of ELF as a functional term theorized on sociolinguistic grounds, this study seeks to understand the relation between ELF as a theoretical construct and ELF as a reality in the life of these language students through their experiences of engagement with English, both within and outside the academic community. The results show that the students have embraced some ideas of the ELF phenomenon on a macro level, but retain a strong belief in the native standard norm on a micro level.

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English as lingua franca and English in Europe

Cited by 69 publications

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The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

The Influence of English on the Spanish Register of Photography: An Empirical Study

A typologically based view on relativisation in English as a European lingua franca

English as a Lingua Franca in Flanders

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