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Language fashion for English borrowings in women’s press
Anna Surendra
Abstract
The aim of the dissertation is to present the language fashion for English borrowings as a multi-faced phenomenon based on anglicisms excerpted from selected magazines belonging to the women’s press. The material database created after reading eight magazines belonging to the women’s press (four biweekly from the people and people & style segments and four luxury lifestyle and shopping monthly magazines, issued from January 2013 to June 2015) has made it possible to categorize the excerpts both due to the subject of borrowing and affiliation to a specific subject field. The next aim of the dissertation was to characterize the language in the women’s press and conclusion whether or not to speak about the professional language journalists writing fashion articles. Beyond the negative answer to the last question, I pointed out the process of bipolar Americanization of the media message created on the pages of women’s magazines consisting, on the one hand, the excessive use of language elements borrowed from English, and on the other, not giving in to language fashion for English and using loans motivated primarily by communication needs. Moreover, the integral part of the dissertation is a dictionary of English lexical borrowings, semantic loans and loanshifts, which make it possible to show the lexical richness of language material extracted for the purposes of this dissertation.- Record ID
- UAM0ea33b4c4eda4f88b19d68c5993f6e2f
- Diploma type
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Author
- Title in Polish
- Moda językowa na zapożyczenia angielskie w prasie kobiecej
- Title in English
- Language fashion for English borrowings in women’s press
- Language
- pol (pl) Polish
- Certifying Unit
- Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology (SNoJiL/WFPiK/FoPaCP)
- Discipline
- linguistics / (humanities) / (humanities)
- Scientific discipline (2.0)
- Status
- Finished
- Defense Date
- 14-09-2018
- Title date
- 14-09-2018
- Supervisor
- URL
- http://hdl.handle.net/10593/23737 Opening in a new tab
- Keywords in English
- language fashion, English borrowings, women’s press, Americanization, language in press
- Abstract in English
- The aim of the dissertation is to present the language fashion for English borrowings as a multi-faced phenomenon based on anglicisms excerpted from selected magazines belonging to the women’s press. The material database created after reading eight magazines belonging to the women’s press (four biweekly from the people and people & style segments and four luxury lifestyle and shopping monthly magazines, issued from January 2013 to June 2015) has made it possible to categorize the excerpts both due to the subject of borrowing and affiliation to a specific subject field. The next aim of the dissertation was to characterize the language in the women’s press and conclusion whether or not to speak about the professional language journalists writing fashion articles. Beyond the negative answer to the last question, I pointed out the process of bipolar Americanization of the media message created on the pages of women’s magazines consisting, on the one hand, the excessive use of language elements borrowed from English, and on the other, not giving in to language fashion for English and using loans motivated primarily by communication needs. Moreover, the integral part of the dissertation is a dictionary of English lexical borrowings, semantic loans and loanshifts, which make it possible to show the lexical richness of language material extracted for the purposes of this dissertation.
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/phd/UAM0ea33b4c4eda4f88b19d68c5993f6e2f/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAM0ea33b4c4eda4f88b19d68c5993f6e2f