UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN EUROPE: DEBATES AND DISCOURSES
20-‐22 APRIL
TO ENGLISH OR NOT TO ENGLISH?
Ivana Palibrk
ipalibrk@gmail.com
Tiana Tošić
tiana_tosic@yahoo.com
University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Philology and Arts, Serbia
• Introduction: A linguistic “To be or not to be”
• “Linguistic Anglo-globalization” (Prćić, 2000, 2005)
Causes
Stages: 1) Launch; 2) Spread; 3) Accept
Main Concerns
• On foreignisms (Klajn, 2007)
• Popular debates ( TV shows, magazines, daily newspapers)
• Field data (our researches on Anglicisms in both modern and traditional means of
communication)
Facebook (March 2011) - The research results revealed that the marked lexicon
comprised about 15-25% of the entire vocabulary, out of which loan-words and phrases
made 5-7%.
Text messages (April 2011) - The total number of linguistic features either
typographically or lexically marked is 13.64% out of which 70 instances of Anglicisms
were recorded, which represented 1.48% of OMC.
Daily newspapers (May, June 2011) – The data analyzed contained only 279 Anglicisms
in 1.127 articles (303.408 words).
• Conclusions:“You can run, but you cannot hide”
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Prćić, Tvrtko. 2000. O sindromu milenijumske bube i jeziku anglosrpskom, in Južnoslovenski filolog, Piper (ed.), vol. 56,
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Tošić, Tiana & Ivana Palibrk. 2011. Girl Talk: English in modern means of communication, in Nasleđe, Bošković, D. (ed.),
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Görlach, Manfred (Ed.) 2001. A Dictionary of European Anglicisms. London: Oxford University Press.
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Klajn, Ivan and Milan Šipka 2007. Veliki rečnik stranih reči i izraza. Novi Sad: Prometej.
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.