Open AccessA Radiography of English Elements in Romania
Author(s) -
Loredana Pungă
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
romanian journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2286-0428
pISSN - 1584-3734
DOI - 10.1515/rjes-2018-0013
Subject(s) - romanian , germanic languages , linguistics , semantic change , context (archaeology) , language contact , syntax , computer science , history , philosophy , german , archaeology
This article aims to offer some insight into manifestations of language contact in the particular case of English and Romanian. It focuses on lexical, morpho-syntactic, semantic and discourse-related aspects of the influence of the former in the context of the latter. In particular, after pointing out the areas in which anglicization is especially obvious, attention is paid to: the adaptation of anglicisms so as to fit Romanian syntactic patterns; code switching and its functions; borrowing-triggered semantic change; lexical-semantic calques; and patterns of English written genres imposing new standards for equivalent Romanian genres.