D. Varga et al., English Loanwords in French and Italian Daily Newspapers- SRAZ LVI, 71-84 (2011)

Linguistic borrowing involving both linguistic and non-linguistic factors continues to occupy a significant realm of linguistic research. As such, this paper focuses on the use of English loanwords in French and Italian journalistic texts. Special attention has been given to the choice of texts to be analysed as it is vital to obtain a high level of equivalence between topics and genres. In order to encompass a diversity of topics, the analysis includes those which discuss issues of global relevance, including the economy, international and European politics, environment technology, etc. Follow-ing an examination of the empirical data, this article contrasts the share of English elements in both languages at the lexical level of linguistic analysis. Undoubtedly, the English language has had a tremendous impact on the majority of European languages. This fact has been particularly pronounced over the last decades. In previous eras of European history, both Italian and French exerted a similar influence on the more common languages of Europe