Dr. Carlos F. Márquez Linares Dr. Enrique F. Quero Gervilla Doctoral Programme in Languages, Texts and Contexts Faculty of Translation and Interpreting university of granada

Preference for the Native Language

Preference for the native language implies that native language expressions are preferable, although direct loans are acceptable and widely used. This principle is not applicable to specialized fields, where other traditions are implemented, e.g. “the use of Greek and Latin forms” (UNESCO, 2005, p. 10), for example, the sphere of Medicine.

This requirement can be interpreted as a consequence of the linguistic correctness requirement: the native language is always preferable unless the term structures and the component meanings are close in both languages, e.g. anti-dilution in some codified resources (Lingvo) is presented as a product of Calque: антиразводнение (antirazvodnenie), because a similar structure and a semantic meaning exist in Russian.

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