ANALYSIS OF SELECTED BORROWINGS IN THE SOCIOLECT OF GERMAN-SPEAKING CLIMBERS

Abstract

The growing interest in mountaineering, and in particular in climbing, which is pre¬sent not only worldwide but also in Germany, has also led to the development of its sociolect. The international character of this discipline is also reflected in contact bet¬ween languages which leads to borrowings in German. The aim of this paper is therefore to qualitatively examine part of the borrowed linguistic material (lexical bor¬rowings) from the sociolect of climbers. The analysis focuses on possible access paths, degrees of assimilation and motivation that may be behind these processes. The paper focuses mainly on borrowings from English and French.