Annals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Textiles, Leatherwork (May 2015)
THE USE OF LOANWORDS IN THE TEXTILE AND FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY
Abstract
This paper focuses on the words borrowed from English, French, Italian, Turkish, Slavic nad other languages used in the textile, fashion and footwear industry. We are well aware of the fact that after the Second World War, globalization spread the English language, thus influencing more and more the language of technology, science and commerce and last but not least fashion and textile industry. With some of these words we are already so used that we do not even think to consider their origin, we take them as our own words. In the present paper we will try to clarify some of these aspects, i.e. their origin and how they were introduced into Romanian language, how popular or unpopular they are and how relevant they are for our day-to-day vocabulary. The idea of globalisation is that, with time, there will be a progressive integration of national economies which will eventually lead to a single global market, the same being true of words taken from different languages and being intregrated into our own language. The fact is that the technical vocabulary of the world nowadays tends to become global – so, more and more English lexical items achieve incontestably international status and our language makes no exception, especially among young people. Key words: loanwords, globalization, fashion, textile and footwear borrowings
