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Loanword and its usage

HASANIC, Adela

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In this paper my aim is to explain the use of loanwords as well as their \nprevalence in most languages. For foreign language learners understanding the \nforeign or second language is much easier if it contains similarities with native \nlanguage. Various language users find many ways to expand vocabulary. There are \nloanwords which are words borrowed from one language to be used in another \none. People use them unconsciously in their daily life. There are direct and \nindirect borrowings depending on their origin and translation. The use of \ndifferent meaning, idiom or lexical item may be considered as borrowing. \nLoanwords are usually words from dominant fields of different activities, so \ngrammatical words are borrowed in very rare situations and they are \nunchangeable within each language. They have little lexical meaning but \nfunction to express grammatical relationships with other words on the part of \nspeech. Such exposure of a loanword may confuse people's minds because it is \nimportant to emphasize the difference between 'foreign word' and 'loan word'. \nAs we said before a loan word is an integrated word from a foreign language \nwith an orthography adapted for the language that receives the new word. \nContrary to that there is a foreign word as a non-integrated word from a \nforeign language where spelling is not changed. \nSeveral changes happen during borrowing process such as the change in \nmeaning, the change in spelling and in the pronunciation depending on \ndifferent factors which have an influence on language. In obvious need for \nexpanding the vocabulary words come-in with a different meaning than that in \nthe language from which it is taken. The same case is when phrases are literary \ntranslated (word-for-word) that is known as a calque.

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In this paper my aim is to explain the use of loanwords as well as their \nprevalence in most languages. For foreign language learners understanding the \nforeign or second language is much easier if it contains similarities with native \nlanguage. Various language users find many ways to expand vocabulary. There are \nloanwords which are words borrowed from one language to be used in another \none. People use them unconsciously in their daily life. There are direct and \nindirect borrowings depending on their origin and translation. The use of \ndifferent meaning, idiom or lexical item may be considered as borrowing. \nLoanwords are usually words from dominant fields of different activities, so \ngrammatical words are borrowed in very rare situations and they are \nunchangeable within each language. They have little lexical meaning but \nfunction to express grammatical relationships with other words on the part of \nspeech. Such exposure of a loanword may confuse people's minds because it is \nimportant to emphasize the difference between 'foreign word' and 'loan word'. \nAs we said before a loan word is an integrated word from a foreign language \nwith an orthography adapted for the language that receives the new word. \nContrary to that there is a foreign word as a non-integrated word from a \nforeign language where spelling is not changed. \nSeveral changes happen during borrowing process such as the change in \nmeaning, the change in spelling and in the pronunciation depending on \ndifferent factors which have an influence on language. In obvious need for \nexpanding the vocabulary words come-in with a different meaning than that in \nthe language from which it is taken. The same case is when phrases are literary \ntranslated (word-for-word) that is known as a calque.

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In this paper my aim is to explain the use of loanwords as well as their \nprevalence in most languages. For foreign language learners understanding the \nforeign or second language is much easier if it contains similarities with native \nlanguage. Various language users find many ways to expand vocabulary. There are \nloanwords which are words borrowed from one language to be used in another \none. People use them unconsciously in their daily life. There are direct and \nindirect borrowings depending on their origin and translation. The use of \ndifferent meaning, idiom or lexical item may be considered as borrowing. \nLoanwords are usually words from dominant fields of different activities, so \ngrammatical words are borrowed in very rare situations and they are \nunchangeable within each language. They have little lexical meaning but \nfunction to express grammatical relationships with other words on the part of \nspeech. Such exposure of a loanword may confuse people's minds because it is \nimportant to emphasize the difference between 'foreign word' and 'loan word'. \nAs we said before a loan word is an integrated word from a foreign language \nwith an orthography adapted for the language that receives the new word. \nContrary to that there is a foreign word as a non-integrated word from a \nforeign language where spelling is not changed. \nSeveral changes happen during borrowing process such as the change in \nmeaning, the change in spelling and in the pronunciation depending on \ndifferent factors which have an influence on language. In obvious need for \nexpanding the vocabulary words come-in with a different meaning than that in \nthe language from which it is taken. The same case is when phrases are literary \ntranslated (word-for-word) that is known as a calque.

Key concepts: Loanword, Linguistics, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Spelling, Meaning (existential), Foreign language, Psychology

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