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In recent years, we have observed a huge influx of vocabulary borrowed from English into Polish; these are words either of English origin or borrowed through English. At the same time, the number and variety of scholarly investigations trying to illustrate the extent of anglicisms in Polish and systematise the semantic fields which draw from English the most have increased. Most of them deal with the latest borrowings, often representing professional jargon or spoken language.
In this paper we will discuss anglicisms which entered Polish over sixty years ago and remained in the sports lexicon until today. The article is a tribute to the late professor Jacek Fisiak, who offered the first in-depth analysis of sports vocabulary borrowed from English into Polish. His Ph.D. monograph (1961) and the subsequent article (1964) have shown a special place of sports terminology among anglicisms in Polish. The lexical items which Fisiak collected in the early sixties of the twentieth century have been tested not only in terms of their fate, but also the degree of grammatical and orthographic assimilation, as well as semantic changes the lexemes have undergone. The study is based on two large corpora of Polish: the <italic>Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego</italic> and <italic>Odkrywka</italic>, comprising texts from the 18th century until the present time.
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In recent years, we have observed a huge influx of vocabulary borrowed from English into Polish; these are words either of English origin or borrowed through English. At the same time, the number and variety of scholarly investigations trying to illustrate the extent of anglicisms in Polish and systematise the semantic fields which draw from English the most have increased. Most of them deal with the latest borrowings, often representing professional jargon or spoken language.
In this paper we will discuss anglicisms which entered Polish over sixty years ago and remained in the sports lexicon until today. The article is a tribute to the late professor Jacek Fisiak, who offered the first in-depth analysis of sports vocabulary borrowed from English into Polish. His Ph.D. monograph (1961) and the subsequent article (1964) have shown a special place of sports terminology among anglicisms in Polish. The lexical items which Fisiak collected in the early sixties of the twentieth century have been tested not only in terms of their fate, but also the degree of grammatical and orthographic assimilation, as well as semantic changes the lexemes have undergone. The study is based on two large corpora of Polish: the Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego and Odkrywka, comprising texts from the 18th century until the present time.

The Fate of Mid-20th-Century Sports Loanwords from English in Polish

Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The Fate of Mid-20-Century Sports Loanwords from English in Polish

In recent years, we have observed a huge influx of vocabulary borrowed from English into Polish; these are words either of English origin or borrowed through...

The Fate of Mid-20^th-Century Sports Loanwords from English in Polish

Publié en ligne: 12 févr. 2022

Pages: 579 - 625

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2021-0001

Mots clés
Loanword, English influence on Polish, sports terms, adaptation

© 2021 Radosław Dylewski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Fate of Mid-20th-Century Sports Loanwords from English in Polish

Publié en ligne: 12 févr. 2022

Pages: 579 - 625

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2021-0001

Mots clésLoanword, English influence on Polish, sports terms, adaptation

© 2021 Radosław Dylewski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Fate of Mid-20^th-Century Sports Loanwords from English in Polish

Mots clés
Loanword, English influence on Polish, sports terms, adaptation