Charles Explorer logo
🇬🇧

Anglicisms in Czech Specialised Discourse with the Focus on Medicine

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2009

Abstract

The article examines the phenomena of an increased influence of English on the Czech specialized vocabulary and on professional communication in a (lexically) so traditional field as medicine. On the basis of excerpts from monolingual and multilingual medical dictionaries and of published scholarly texts in the field of medicine the author attempts to judge the position and the share of anglicisms in contemporary Czech medical terminology and in (written) medical communication.