ENGLISH AND FRENCH LOANWORDS IN FASHION MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Abstract

In the semantic field of fashion we can find several terms borrowed from English and French, since even though French has an older tradition in fashion, in recent years English has gained great prominence too. In this work I study English and French loanwords found in a corpus comprised of fashion articles in a Spanish language magazine. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of 71 lexical entries, I analyze - from a synchronic perspective - the incorporation of the loanwords into Spanish, taking into account both their propagation and adaptation and the degree of acceptability assigned by speakers surveyed for that purpose. By way of conclusion, I value the relationship between the social norm and the prescriptive one. When considering the inclusion of the words in consulted dictionaries, their use in the corpus, their adaptation and acceptance, I realized that not all the words that have been spread, adapted and accepted in the recipient system have been standardized