Postoje k výpůjčkám v soudobé češtině

• Authors: Dickins Thomas

Title variants

EN

ATTITUDES TO LOANWORDS IN CONTEMPORARY CZECH

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article uses empirical data to evaluate Czech perceptions of lexical borrowing, based on a nationwide poll conducted in November 2005 by the Public Opinion Research Centre of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The survey combines synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and is the first major study of its kind since Tejnor, October 1970. It broadly concludes that most Czechs accept functionally necessary loanwords, but feel that their language contains a surfeit of peripheral foreign terms, which are used too frequently and somewhat inappropriately. Resistance to lexical innovation from other languages is especially strong amongst the elderly (particularly men) and the less well educated.

Keywords

EN

ATTITUDES; FOREIGN TERMS; LEXICAL BORROWING; LOANWORDS; PERCEPTIONS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS
• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY
• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 14-28
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dickins Thomas

• Thomas Dickins, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, UK, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4070/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA05853