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The Sociolinguistics of Contemporary Spanish.
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The Sociolinguistics of Contemporary Spanish. "...Through the influence of science, politics, economics and other fields of learning, words of foreign and learned origin are constantly enriching the Spanish language..."1 This statement is still true to this day. The Spanish Language is constantly evolving and developing. There are two main reasons for this- to replace and modernise antiquated terminology and to accommodate new modern concepts, for example, new technological advances: "...need to lexicalise something which has not been expressed before..."2 Nowhere has this need for neologisms been more apparent than in the field of Information Technology: "...the rise of information technology is the single most important technological development of the twentieth century...computer jargon is one of the fastest and widest-reaching areas of lexical change in Spanish..."3 The purpose of this essay is to examine the different processes by which this change is being effected in the Spanish language in the field of information technology. There are...
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