Invisible anglicisms in Slovene : ǂanǂ overview

Sicherl, Eva (author)

While Slovene uses numerous visible Anglicisms, which are either established and lexicalized on the one hand, or fashionable luxury loans (Onysko and Winter-Froemel 2011) on the other, there appear several examples of invisible Anglicisms whose structure is clearly influenced by English. These loan translations are extremely difficult to detect; such items and phrases slither into the language and only careful language users sense that something ‘sounds unusual’ or that there might be a more idiomatic alternative in Slovene. The structures and meanings of some of these calques, but also their frequencies, are checked by means of the Slovene corpus Gigafida 2.0. An attempt at a classification of these loan borrowings has been made, as they enter the Slovene language both as individual lexemes or polylexemic units, while also exerting influence on and reshaping syntactic and word-formational patterns. The article illustrates this with examples.

• Language: English
• Keywords: invisible anglicisms, semantic loans, calques, Slovene
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 59-75
• Numbering: Letn. 12, Št. 24
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-181920
• UDC: 811.111:811.163.6
• ISSN on article: 2384-8987
• COBISS.SI-ID: 264180483
• Publication date in RUL: 20.04.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Ricognizioni : rivista di lingue, letterature e culture moderne
• Shortened title: Ricognizioni
• Publisher: Dipartimento di lingue e letterature straniere e culture moderne, Università di Torino
• ISSN: 2384-8987
• COBISS.SI-ID: 65994338

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: angleščina, anglicizmi, sposojenke, kalki, slovenščina

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• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: science foundation ireland