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The Anglicization of European LexisEdited by Cristiano Furiassi, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González
[Not in series 174] 2012
► pp. 239–259
Edited by Cristiano Furiassi, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González
[Not in series 174] 2012
► pp. 239–259
Chapter 11. Der Elefant im Raum…
The influence of English on German phraseology
English has become the lingua franca of the modern world. The high degree of exposure to English in popular culture and the media speeds up the pace of lexical borrowing. This article deals with the influence of English on German phraseology. It is based on the corpus of the Institut für deutsche Sprache (COSMAS II) and a corpus of German newspaper articles, which allows comparative investigations over a period of ten years. The study reveals that English is now making an important contribution in disseminating phraseological units (used in their original form in English and as loan translations). Three criteria have been found relevant to prove their Anglo-American origin: (1) use in an English-speaking context (including translations), (2) explicit metacommunicative signalling of the origin and (3) variability of form.
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