Introduction . The article discusses loanwords as one of the ways to expand lexis, attitude towards foreign language units in German community, particular, purist movements and efforts preserve purity language, a brief analysis modern is carried out. Currently, loanwords, especially those form English, have crucial role process lexis evolution. Analyzing this phenomenon its perception by native...

The paper focuses on variation across institutional and individual scientific blogs, i.e., blogs that are managed by journals, magazines or associations involved in the dissemination of information researchers. Using comparable corpora posts from different disciplines, look particular at markers dialogicity, representation participants (markers self-reference, reader-reference, as well communit...

The term lexical approach was introduced in 1993 by Michael Lewis, who observed that "language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalised grammar" (The Lexical Approach, 1993).

The article aims to recreate the tourist view based on observation of lexical layer texts in quantitative terms. subject research is most frequent lexis excerpted form an frequency list from Listy z podróży po Włoszech by Konstanty Gaszyński. collected material consists 300 words. common vocabulary was grouped into 9 semantic-lexical circles and analyzed using tools cultural linguistics. has in...

The Brazilian Portuguese language orthographic reform has promoted changes in writing in less than 2% of its lexis. However, these changes have affected medical practice. The authors present in this article the main changes in the orthographic rules and gather a group of words that have had their spelling altered by this new language reform emphasizing the dermatological terms.