SPECIAL ISSUE: Anglicisms in Domain-Specific Discourse: Fashion, Leisure and Entertainment

Abstract

The domains of fashion, leisure and entertainment are the focus of this Special Issue of LFE as they represent long-standing, productive and interesting areas of English-induced lexical borrowing. Although most fashion terminology comes from French, British fashion has greatly contributed to the enrichment of fashion vocabulary since the 19th century. Also forms of leisure and entertainment ̶ sport being the oldest and still the most productive area of English-induced lexical borrowing ̶ were affected by English, starting from old card games like poker and bridge to modern forms of popular entertainment like television shows and videogames. Like many other fields, fashion, leisure and entertainment are characterized by a core of technical terminology, known by experts, like the field of textiles in fashion, and by a general vocabulary that is familiar to a non-specialist audience, even to people with limited competence in English. The seven research articles presented in this Special Issue of LFE focus on aspects of the selected domains in some European languages, namely French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.