| Abstract | Throughout the past, languages have influenced each other, with Greek, Latin, and French playing the major role. Today, in the 21st century, English has been considered as the most influential language, particularly impacting German. Since English loanwords, which are also known as anglicisms, are spread across various domains such as fashion, this paper will demonstrate the influence that English has on German, in terms of vocabulary and its adaptation into German language system. This paper first provides an insight to the development of English loanwords in Germans throughout history. The study then focuses on characterization of anglicisms into loanwords and loan coinages, and later discusses their assimilation into German through graphemic and morphological integration, syntax, and semantic. The second part of the paper focuses on anglicisms in the field of fashion. By analyzing the terms from German online magazines Vogue, Brigitte, and Cosmopolitan, and by comparing them to the previous researches, the aim of this paper is to present the adaptability of German language to English influences. |
