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Economics Students' Language - Czenglish?
[Jazyk studentů ekonomie - czenglish?]

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  • Marie Auerspergová

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The article deals with typical mistakes made by students of the University of Economics, Prague, in their papers under the influence of English. Interferential mistakes adopted from English into Czech are a serious linguistic phenomenon and the literature focusing on the influence of English on Czech is quite large, but more attention is paid to lexicological and morphological problems than to syntactical ones. Knowing that borrowings from other languages are natural but adopting sentence structures is not, the author concentrates not only on lexicology (usage of foreign words in students' texts) and morphology but also on sentence structure, especially on word order, passive voice, verbal and nonverbal structures (infinitives, participles, gerunds), and prepositional structures. Frequent interlinguistic mistakes caused by mechanical adoption of English have been sorted out into several groups according to their syntactical features, analysed and described in detail. The output is a complex of advice what to accept in students' Czech and what not. The author encourages teachers to ask students to rewrite their papers if they are unsatisfactory from the linguistic point of view.

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  • Marie Auerspergová, 2013. "Economics Students' Language - Czenglish? [Jazyk studentů ekonomie - czenglish?]," Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2013(4), pages 86-93.
  • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlaop:v:2013:y:2013:i:4:id:412:p:86-93
    DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.412
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