El anglicismo en español: revisión crítica del estado de la cuestión

Abstract

The study of anglicisms in Spanish has always been controversia! due to the purist attitude of sorne linguists who have regarded the presence of English words in the Spanish discourse only as a symbol of the Angloamerican intemational dominance after the Second World War. This paper reviews the main articles and books which have dealt with the English influence in Spanish since the end of the l 940s, when the first relevant study carne out (Alfaro 1948), up to the latest publications on this field (Rodríguez González y Lillo 1997, Riquelme 1998). The need for further research in unexplored domains related to this phenomenon such as the morphosintactic calques is also emphasized.