Anglicisms in Albanian: A Language Contact Phenomenon

This paper shows that there are many more Anglicisms
in the Albanian language than it has been
traditionally believed by most Albanian linguists,
that Anglicisms began to be used in Albania earlier
than it has been hitherto assumed, since the 1920s,
and that they constitute a considerable body of
words in current use in the Albanian language; it
considers a number of sources.
The collection of the newspaper Laboremus, a
periodical published by the students of the
Technical School of Harry Fultz in the 1920s, funded
by the American Red Cross; four dictionaries: A
Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach
(2001), the 1980 and the 2002 editions of the
Albanian Dictionary, Fjalor i Fjalëve të Huaja
(1986) by Mikel Ndreca; a three-month collection of
the newspaper Gazeta Shqiptare and three
questionnaires provide the material of the empirical
investigation.

Autorentext

Rajmonda Këçira was born in Shkodra, Albania. She graduated from Tirana University in 1982. She is a lecturer at the University of Shkodra. In 2005, she was awarded the academic degree "Doctor philosophie" from Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria. She currently serves as dean to the Foreign Language Faculty at Shkodra University.

Klappentext

This paper shows that there are many more Anglicisms in the Albanian language than it has been traditionally believed by most Albanian linguists, that Anglicisms began to be used in Albania earlier than it has been hitherto assumed, since the 1920s, and that they constitute a considerable body of words in current use in the Albanian language; it considers a number of sources. The collection of the newspaper Laboremus, a periodical published by the students of the Technical School of Harry Fultz in the 1920s, funded by the American Red Cross; four dictionaries: A Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), the 1980 and the 2002 editions of the Albanian Dictionary, Fjalor i Fjalëve të Huaja (1986) by Mikel Ndreca; a three-month collection of the newspaper Gazeta Shqiptare and three questionnaires provide the material of the empirical investigation.