F60 - Economic Impacts of Globalization: GeneralReturn

The article deals with considerations concerning globalization tendencies, and their impact on the languages, especially the Czech language. It reflects the positive and negative sides of the phenomenon which is becoming a reality in all Europe, and based on the given fact, it tackles the term language internationalization and language "Europeanization". Further it deals with the processes at various levels, namely political, economic, and cultural as well. In the second part an analysis of the globalization impacts on the language is carried out. In relation to it, language internationalization, which is manifested at the lexical level, especially in word-formation area connected with language loans, is reminded. The attention is paid also to the Czech linguists' attitudes of to the issues of internationalization and language "Europeanization". Further so called centripetal and centrifugal tendencies in borrowing language means from foreign languages are mentioned. The next part of the paper is focused on xenophile and xenophobic discourse in borrowing foreign items into the language.