Japanese Loanwords for Leisure Activities in Current Spanish
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Description: | Japanese loanwords related to spare time constitute the fifth biggest semantic field (7 words out of a total of 92) of all such words used currently in Spanish. For the first time concerning Spanish, the leisure activities Japanese loanwords are described thoroughly from a formal, semantic and historical perspective in the present article. Further, the degree of adaptation of these loanwords within the Spanish lexical inventory will be indicated. In order to carry out this analysis, we have gathered all the available information on the Japanese loanwords for leisure activities in several sources (current Spanish dictionaries and other foreign languages dictionaries, as well as some computerized corpora of Spanish). The results reflect that these words, most of them introduced in recent times, are alive in our language. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/39114 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/39114 |
| Keyword: | Japanese loanwords leisure activities loanwords Spanish Lexicography Diccionario de la lengua española Japonesismo ocio préstamos léxicos lexicografía española |