The reality of English-Polish corporate speak
Journal Title: Socjolingwistyka - Year 2018, Vol 32, Issue
Abstract
The paper presents corporate speak in Poland, a social variety of the Polish language, noticeably marked by the presence of English borrowings. It is featured in accordance with the status of English as the lingua franca for corporate communication world-wide. Therefore, this study aims at presenting a certain perspec¬tive on language contact in an era of globalization. The survey research was conducted on the cohort of 84 corporate employees to expose the sociolinguistic reflections of the English-Polish contact visible in corporate speak. The research enabled a better understanding of certain underlying phenomena of incorporating English lexical items into the social variety of Polish.
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Agnieszka Cierpich
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- EP ID EP438762
- DOI 10.17651/SOCJOLING.32.6
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