THE "ANGLICIZATION" OF THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA. A THREAT TO THE IDENTITY OF THE LANGUAGE OR A NORMAL PHENOMENON IN ITS EVOLUTION?
Journal Title: Studii şi cercetări filologice - Seria Limbi Străine Aplicate - Year 2013, Vol 12, Issue
Abstract
The Romanian language today faces a real offensive of the English language. There are fears that this intense process of influence endangers the identity of the Romanian language and its speakers’ linguistic consciousness. The complex influence exerted by English on Romanian is therefore seen as a threat. But English is the language of globalization, ICT, science and research, knowledge, international organizations and relations. The communication skills in English of the Romanian native speakers are a must in the Knowledge Society and the Age of Globalization. It is natural that English influence Romanian, through information and communication. The English language loans enrich Romanian and increase its capacity of covering the reality, continuously changing, its force to name and express aspects of the surrounding world. The contact with English, which places Romanian at the forefront of communication, by increasing its capacity to express a fast progressing civilization, also favours a process of acculturation, necessary in the world of the unity in diversity and of the New Humanism. "Anglicization" should not be seen in a negative sense, but as a positive phenomenon in the dialectic becoming of the language, a continuous process that ensures the adaptation, the actuality, the expressive force and vitality of Romanian.
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Ivan Sorin
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