Anglicisms in the German medical vocabulary
Schleyer, F.
Tierarztliche Praxis 13(2): 267-270
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0303-6286 PMID: 4024069 Document Number: 247524
In view of an ever-increasing infiltration of the German medical vocabulary by Britishisms and Americanisms, a linguistic attempt was made to categorize this phraseology as follows: more or less incorporated terminology, "internationalized" terms, identical translations, unnecessary use of English expressions instead of German synonyms, borrowing from the English with an alteration of the original meaning, and German neologisms on the basis of English vocabular material. Specimens from all these categories are enumerated.