Anglicisms in contemporary German language and their lexicographic treatment in a bilingual dictionary

The paper directly follows onto the Large German-Czech Academic Dictionary project, which is being compiled at the Prague German Studies Institute since 2000. The author of the paper has been actively involved in the preparation of the dictionary entries, and these serve as the material base of her work. The entries were selected according to the active needs of the project - the inducement for the paper was an analysis of approximately 600 substantive Anglicisms which are present in the Duden Universal Dictionary. The paper summarizes theoretical concepts of Anglicisms in the German language - specifically the history of their borrowings, their classification, integration processes and their influence on the contemporary German language. The pivotal part of the paper focuses on the analysis of the dictionary entries of the selected substantive Anglicisms in German dictionaries and in the German-Czech dictionaries and points out their deficiencies, which are then illustrated by specific examples. The analysis proceeds following individual linguistic planes, i.e. spelling, phonetics (pronunciation, respectively transcription, accent), morphology and semantics. The entries in the German dictionaries show problems on the spelling level caused by dual alternatives, which list both the original English spelling..