A Comprehensive Definition and Typology of Anglicisms in Present-day Spanish
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Universidad de Granada
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ISSN: 0213-201X
Year of publication: 2018
Issue: 34
Pages: 211-237
Type: Article
More publications in: Epos: Revista de filología
Abstract
The aim of the present piece of research is twofold. On the one hand, it attempts to provide a clear and accurate definition of the term Anglicism. On the other hand, it delves deeply into the different loanword classifications that have been expounded so far in order to take them as the basis for elaborating an inclusive, comprehensive and consistent typology of Anglicisms as they are used in present-day Spanish. This taxonomy improves the existing ones in that it covers true as well as false Anglicisms and, moreover, it adds two new categories of pseudo-Anglicisms.