Anglicisms in Domain-Specific Discourse: Fashion, Leisure and Entertainment [Introducción]

• Autores: Carmen Luján García, Virginia Pulcini
• Localización: LFE: Revista de lenguas para fines específicos, ISSN 1133-1127, Vol. 24, Nº 1, 2018, págs. 10-17
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Current facts such as globalized markets and internationalization have led to the increasing spread of the English language as the main vehicle of cross-border communication, especially among speakers whose native language is not English. This role of English as a lingua francaof international communication in multilingual contexts has been studied and differently assessed by scholars, who have envisaged, on the one hand, a useful improvement of global understanding by means of a shared code (Seidlhofer, 2011) or, on the other hand, a dangerous reduction of the world’s linguistic diversity (Phillipson, 2008)...