SEMANTIC IMAGINARY ANGLO-AMERICAN BORROWINGS IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE (SCHEINENTLEHNUNGEN)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to describe the ways and means in which a donor language can influence a recipient language. The term Scheinentlehnungen, so-called imaginary borrowings, is considered. Any process that takes place in the modern world involves changes in the language in many areas. It is undoubtedly the fact that most of the loans come from the English language. The article deals with the category of semantic imaginary borrowings (Scheinentlehnungen), describes and gives examples of how borrowings function in German. The author concludes that in cases with semantic imaginary loanwords, it is difficult to determine whether we are talking about anglicism, which has the same meaning in German as in English, or whether the word has received additional meanings. The main changes in borrowing values are related to expansion processes, which can be traced both on old borrowings (starten, Festival) and on modern borrowed Anglo-Americanisms (Drink, Team, Camp).