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Genre and loans: English words in an Italian newspaper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2006

Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson
Affiliation:
Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Calabria, Italy
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Abstract

‘Botti vietati agli under 14,’ La Repubblica, 29 Dec 03. The aim of this work is to examine the use of English loan words in a specific genre of language: parts of an Italian newspaper. In essence, it looks at how English is encroaching on one among many languages – and occurring in their texts. The key question is: ‘In a specific context, what are loanwords?’, in terms of which we will consider genre as it is exemplified in newspapers, following which there is an analysis of loan words used in the different sections of an Italian newspaper

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English Today , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 9 - 20
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2006 Cambridge University Press

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