Preliminary communication
SEMANTIC ADAPTATION OF GERMAN LOANWORDS IN THE EXAMPLES OF METAPHORS FROM THE NOVEL COVJEK OD NOVINA
Nikolina Pandža
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar
Senka Marinčić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1698-2443
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar
Abstract
Centuries-long German and Croatian language contact resulted in the borrowing of German
loanwords, i.e. germanisms. The paper gives their definition, an overview of their research to date as well as an insight into contact linguistics and historical semantics which study the causes, modes and types of semantic adaptation. Due to the fact that loanwords belong to substandard variety and that in the process of adaptation they have changed their meanings, we have chosen for the corpus of our research the novel „Covjek od novina“, written in Zagreb jargon. The focus of research is on the examples of German loanwords whose meanings in metaphors have changed as a result of semantic adaptation.
Keywords
contact linguistics; historical semantics; German loanword; semantic adaptation; metaphor; extension of meaning; pejorization of meaning
Hrčak ID:
153672
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2015.
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