Anglicisms in Domain-Specific Discourse: Fashion, Leisure and Entertainment

Current facts such as globalized markets and internationalization have led to the increasing spread of the English language as the main vehicle of cross-border communication, especially among speakers whose native language is not English. This role of English as a lingua franca of international communication in multilingual contexts has been studied and differently assessed by scholars, who have envisaged, on the one hand, a useful improvement of global understanding by means of a shared code or, on the other hand, a dangerous reduction of the world’s linguistic diversity. The domains of fashion, leisure and entertainment have been chosen for this Special Issue of LFE as they represent long-standing, productive and interesting areas of English-induced lexical borrowing. This introduction presents the contents of the seven articles published in this volume.