This paper aims at analyzing the frequency and usage of English loanwords in Italian texts concerning tourism, such as travel catalogues, brochures, magazines, advertising and tourist websites. We will examine their etymology and their processes of word-formation, as well as their adaptation to the Italian phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical system and their developing into derivatives. Subsequently, we will seek the Italian equivalent or calque, if there is any, of these English loanwords. Finally, it will be possible to consider in which contexts English terms are preferred to their Italian equivalent and to what extent English loanwords in tourism texts act as a factor of internationalization and as a link agent among different languages.[...]
Migration of Words: A Lexicographic Study of English Loanwords in Tourism Texts
VACCARELLI, FRANCESCA
2012-01-01
Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing the frequency and usage of English loanwords in Italian texts concerning tourism, such as travel catalogues, brochures, magazines, advertising and tourist websites. We will examine their etymology and their processes of word-formation, as well as their adaptation to the Italian phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical system and their developing into derivatives. Subsequently, we will seek the Italian equivalent or calque, if there is any, of these English loanwords. Finally, it will be possible to consider in which contexts English terms are preferred to their Italian equivalent and to what extent English loanwords in tourism texts act as a factor of internationalization and as a link agent among different languages.[...]I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
