Lexical survival and mortality: the case of Canarian anglicisms

Abstract

This chapter presents the results of a small study recently carried out among a group of 154 young Canarian university students. The aim was to gather preliminary data on their knowledge of the "old" Canarian anglicisms that appear in the Diccionario ejemplar de canarismos (Corrales and Corbella, 2009). The doubts raised in a previous work (Gonzalez Cruz, 2022a), about the real vitality of these terms among young speakers today, motivated this first approach to the question of their survival. The data obtained seem to suggest that a good part of these terms have fallen into disuse and are already facing a process of substitution or lexical mortality.