UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR

Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Ciencias de la Educación

Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros – INGLÉS
SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Full Name (s): Bosmediano Alisson 20/20, SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Erazo Camila 20/20 Class: UCE-7A ______ /20
Estrada Valery (Coord) 20/20 Group´s grade: 20/20
Luna Emily 20/20 Date: Wednesday, February 07°, 2024
Guerrero Salomé 20/20

Topic: THE USE OF ANGLICISMS AMONG TEENAGERS

Froli Celevska, , I. & Naumoska- Rodríguez-Medina David Crystal

Code-switching The influence of English on
Italian has been however
attested: English is not only
shaping our language from a
lexical point of view, but it is
also influencing syntactic
structures, and sometimes it
even results in episodes of
codeswitching and code-
mixing. (p. 69)
Sarakinska, B
From the analysis of the
results, we may establish that
our adolescents prefer to use a
sentence containing an
anglicism even when they
have the option to convey the
same meaning with a
Macedonian equivalent. (p.
86)
This author analyzed 531 TV
commercials across four
Spanish TV channels (Tele5,
Antena3, LaSexta and Disney
Channel) and she found that:
the results confirm a
considerable presence of pure
Anglicisms, English-Spanish
code switching, pseudo-
Anglicisms and Anglo-
American imagery and music
in the advertising of products
related to cosmetics, hygiene
and personal care on Spanish
television (RodríguezMedina,
p.278).
The study of the language is
not only to establish
grammatical rules of ways of
teaching, it also needs to be
studied to measure the impact
on not-English-speaking
countries and suggest an
introduction of a correct
application of the new terms.
(p.15)
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Social Aspects Young people often use
Influence Anglicisms on social media to
prove that they know how to
master the language, to feel
more connected to their
international peers, to sound
as cool as English speakers do
and to attract a wider
audience. (p. 69)
The surrounding environment
and the increasing presence of
English in every sphere of life
do affect adolescents’
language use, up to the point
that certain anglicisms do not
sound foreign to them at all.
(p. 84)
It is a fact that teenagers are
the ones who are involved
more with technology than
adults or children and thus use
new Anglicisms. This is a
means of communication in
which young people learn all
the time to speak with “style”
in a social environment.
(p.16)
Explored the use of
Anglicisms in several leisure
fields: technology,
entertainment, and food and
drinks in the TV commercials
of three Spanish TV channels:
she found that the English
language and the Anglo-
American culture have a great
impact on the Spanish
language and culture with
regard to leisure-related
topics.
(p.279)

(Celevska, , I. & (Krohn Silje, 2020) (Lipková, 2011) (Spinelli, 2022)

Naumoska-Sarakinska, B)
Code Switching As such, this would include
speaking in a way and using
words and expressions
common among this age
group, and due to the global
lingua franca status that
English enjoys, it is no surprise
that anglicisms are so
prevalent. (p. 80)
It is possible to believe that
the language depicted in the
series is rather similar to how
they perceive youth language
to be. The high number of sex-
related Anglicisms can be
explained about the strategy of
semantic bleaching, where
youth might prefer English
rather than Norwegian to
lower the level of seriousness
in a conversation. (p.45)
The reason for the use of
Anglicisms is, however,
motivated not only by the
inner requirements of
adolescence (the search for
identity and testing possible
selves). It is also conditioned
by exterior factors, such as
constant contact with the
language and the lack of a
suitable Czech counterpart for
the English expression. (p.72)

Social Media By looking at these results,
aspect influence we see that the surrounding
environment and the
increasing presence of
English in every sphere of
life do affect adolescents’
language use, up to the point
that certain anglicisms do
not sound foreign to them at
all. It is also noticeable that
peers or friend groups, in
particular, affect language
use and word choice among
adolescents, undoubtedly
due to their need to fit in and
be accepted, something that
is of great importance in this
stage of their life. (p.85)
In the interviews, both the
urban and the rural informants
discussed a possible greater
exposure of English in the
cities due to more technology,
commercials in the city center,
and more foreign people.
There is a greater availability
of activities and communities a
teenager can take part in in the
cities, and with a greater offer
of environments where youth
can be with peers, they also
speak more often with friends
and adjust their language
thereafter (p.46)
Teenagers are more affected
by the spread of the Internet
and the English language than
adults, 100% of whom in this
instance were learning
Russian throughout their
school education. Therefore, I
assume that teenagers will be
more likely to use Anglicisms
in their online communication
and self-presentation than
adults. (p.9)
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Therefore, adolescents were
selected because they tend to
use them in a greater
proportion than other age
groups and in various
contexts. Among the reasons
given, the fact that they
follow fashion patterns stood
out, they are more susceptible,
they have more free time and
they are prey to Marketing.
Without forgetting that, with
just pressing a key with a like
or like, they realize that they
receive many “likes” for a
given publication in response,
making evident the need to be
accepted by the virtual
environment where they are
used to navigating. (p. 133)