Borrowing from Other Spheres of Experience as a Means of Creating Positive Evaluation
The paper proves that cross-thematic lexical borrowing can be an effective means of creating positive evaluative connotation. The author examines the German language of football in its colloquial variety, which is rich in borrowings from other semantic fields. The study shows that the majority of borrowings are represented by military terms and professional military jargon. The author analyses the causes of this phenomenon and the functions performed in the language of football by the verbs borrowed from military vocabulary.