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Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions
Edited by Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 26] 2020
► pp. 265–284

The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beauty

| The College of New Jersey
| Texas A&M University

This comparative study of loanwords in the language of technology and of fashion and beauty in Spanish shows that their behavior is starkly different in these semantic fields. Data from Spanish language web pages show that lexical borrowing is more frequent in fashion than in technology, borrowability of parts of speech varies across these fields, technology loanwords are almost exclusively Anglicisms but in fashion they come also from other languages and have a more complex etymology, there is greater morphological integration among technology than fashion loanwords, and borrowing in technology is often accompanied by a kind of metalinguistic commentary that reflects attitudes and beliefs that is not seen in the fashion data.

Keywords: technology, fashion, loanwords, immediate and ultimate etymon, integration, metalinguistic commentary
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
    • 2.1Loanwords
    • 2.2Technology loanwords
    • 2.3Loanwords in fashion and beauty
  • 3.Methodology
  • 4.Results
  • 5.Discussion
    • 5.1Loanword etymology
    • 5.2Morphological integration
    • 5.3Metalinguistic commentary
  • 6.Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 13 May 2020
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