Cultural Peculiarities of Linguistic Borrowings in the Modern Korean Language

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of history, ways and means of linguistic borrowings from Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Kazakh in the modern Korean language. The authors touch upon categories and frequency of using English loan words in Korean. In the Korean language often appear language units composed of English and chinese and other components that have meaning ​​absent in the original language. Many Koreans are not even aware that some of the words they use, have come from foreign languages and firmly entered into the everyday life becoming un-separable vocabulary of the Korean. However, in the development of any modern language we can periodically observe so called “purism” periods (from the Latin “purus” - pure), when all of a sudden everybody begins to fight against foreign language vocabulary, replacing it with native one. Thus, this subsystem of the Korean language substantially drifted away from the English language, and now is developing according to its own laws. So, what happens to the phonetic form of English borrowings when they get into the Korean language? This question applies only to English borrowings and other borrowings from European languages. The paper also suggests approaches to organizing experimental work on analyzing ways of transmitting English borrowings by means of transcription, transliteration, transplantation and tracing.