The Role of Age and Gender in CMC: The Case of English Borrowings by Spanish Speakers

Abstract

[eng] The growing progress of language in CMC has become every time more noticeable in the past decades, which makes it easy to spread like wildfire. Thus, the effect towards diverse languages and cultures is quite common. The historical relationship that English and Spanish share is especially interesting, since both languages have received influence from each other. Spain in this case has borrowed several terms from English and has adapted to the Spanish speaker’s daily communication. This paper aims to study how these speakers behave with borrowings from English in contexts of CMC, taking into account the age and gender of the participants.