Język. Komunikacja. Informacja, 2006, tom 1

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Translation or non-Translation? Borrowings from English in the Polish Language of Biotechnology
(SORUS S.C. Wydawnictwo i Drukarnia Cyfrowa, 2006) Kłos, Patrycja; Maternik, Emilia; Matulewska, Aleksandra; Piontek, Paulina
The paper deals with the impact of English on the Polish language of biotechnology on the basis of the analyzed linguistic material from academic course books, scientific articles, Internet publications, encyclopedias and dictionaries. About 220 terms from the field of biotechnology have been analyzed. The selected examples encompass calques, hybrids and exotics (direct borrowings) which squeeze the existing Polish terms out of usage. The authors put forward a thesis that the globalization of science results in the fact that English (which is a language of international communication, conference language and the language of scientific publications of worldwide importance) influences national languages of special purposes and contributes to the creation of Polish-English professional pidgin. The problem of meaning transfer in the process of English term borrowing has been discussed as well. In the majority of cases there is no expansion, restriction or any other change of meaning observed.