Recent English borrowings in the language of young Poles
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https://doi.org/10.15584/slowo.2025.16.24Keywords:
English, borrowing, language contact, communication, young people’s speechAbstract
People have always borrowed what they needed, both things and words. Language contact has launched a plethora of different phenomena, of which word borrowing seems to be a conspicuous and very influential process. This article is intended to delve into the problem of English loan words in the language of young people in Poland. We shall establish the most recent contributions to Polish that are regularly used by young people and point out the channels through which borrowings enter the language. Further, some light will be shed on the frequent forms of adaptation loans undergo. Finally, young people’s attitudes towards borrowings will be presented as well as the influence of loan word usage on the process of communication
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