Katarina Ćirić-Duvnjak

With an ever-increasing interest for sports and the expansion of English, there is the need to expand Serbian sports terminology as well. The aim of this paper is to show by what means and to what extent Anglicisms are integrated and incorporated in Serbian sports terminology, which has in the last decades been expanding by the same token. With this in mind, various levels of the adaptation of Anglicisms to the receiving language were considered (at the phonological, morphological and semantic levels), as well as the reasons why such a substantial number of Anglicisms and translated English terms were taken up in Serbian sports language. This article also reviews the frequently brought up issue of national identity being at risk by an inflow of new, foreign words into the language, also clarifying why this is not the case, especially where it concerns sports terminology

Keywords: Anglicisms, sports terminology, adaptation of Anglicisms, national identity

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