Il prestito linguistico nel lessico dell'omosessualità. Studio storico e comparativo dell'internazionalismo in francese, italiano, spagnolo, inglese e tedesco.

  • LoVecchio, Nicholas
Publication date
May 2019
Publisher
HAL CCSD

Abstract

This thesis is a linguistic study of the international lexicon of homosexuality, taking as its central assumption that internationalisms are the product of lexical borrowing and must be studied in a historical comparative perspective. Following a critical review of different approaches to loanword studies (philological vs. sociolinguistic), which places the problem within the more general realm of the neologism, the aim was to assess to what extent the shared homosexual lexicon in several European languages – French, Italian, Spanish, English and German – results from borrowing (loanwords or calques), by testing the hypothesis that most of these denominations can be traced back to a single origin, rather than being independently constructed...

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