GLOBALIZAREA LINGVISTIC

The world we are living in today is confronting many fast changes: political, economical andespecially cultural, all these at a global level. This paper aims to present the main features oflinguistic globalisation. One of the most important characteristics of linguistic globalisation is theuse of English all around the world, as a lingua franca. The national languages, due to this fact,are given less attention as English words are imported in a large amount, and also because underthe pressure of velocity, many words are cut or we can even encounter new words formed withcomposition by abbreviation