Original scientific paper

LOAN TRANSLATIONS IN SPORTS TERMINOLOGY: BASKETBALL

Dijana Ćurković ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Basketball came to Croatia from America and thus the impact of English
in Croatian basketball terminology is significant; by taking over the game, the terminology was also taken.In order to examine the interaction between Croatian and English the FIBA’s official rules of the game were compared. As expected, a large number of English loan words and loan translations was established.The results of the analysis were classified according to the type of translation and the mode of adaptation.

Keywords

basketball; English language; loan words; loan translations; terminology

Hrčak ID:

115912

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/115912

Publication date:

10.1.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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