THE USE OF FOREIGN WORDS FROM TRANSPORT PUBLICATIONS OF THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Angelika Petrėtienė

doi:10.3846/transport.2018.2744

Abstract

The article analyses foreign words (their origin, meaning and equivalents), selected from the transport publications of the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century: the conducted questionnaire method assesses the relevancy of foreign words nowadays, i.e. whether the respondents are aware of the equivalents of foreign words, as well as examines the usage frequency of foreign words. The research defines the respondents’ attitudes towards changing foreign words into their equivalents. It also examines the current usage of the foreign words in different language functional styles. The results of the research are structured and provided in the table and figures.

Highlights

Talking about the usage of foreign words during the period of the eighth decade of the 19th century and the end of the fourth decade of the 20th century, Z. Zinkevičius (1992) emphasized the importance and relevancy of the language purification
It was necessary to approve the correct application of some foreign words, as well as to eliminate and replace some foreign words by their native equivalents
The results of the answers to the guestion “In which language style do you use the presented foreign words?” show (Figure 2), that foreign words completely disappeared from the scientific language of transport, still remaining only in the colloquial language style of the respondents

Summary

Introduction

Talking about the usage of foreign words during the period of the eighth decade of the 19th century and the end of the fourth decade of the 20th century, Z. Zinkevičius (1992) emphasized the importance and relevancy of the language purification. Theoretical: the foreign words from the publications of the end of the 19th century and early 20th century in the area of transport are selected and analysed, the aspects of their survival, entrenchment and changes in the Lithuanian language investigated. To achieve this objective, the existence of the discussed foreign words in the dictionaries of various periods reviewed, as well as the examples from the periodic publications of the first half of the 20th century, reviewed at the website

Origin of foreign words

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Conclusions