Los anglicismos en las versiones españolas de "Heartstopper"

The present article delves into the study of Anglicisms in the language of the youth population. Taking as source the four first graphic novels by Alice Oseman and the adapted series Heartstopper, the frequency, use and types of Anglicisms are examined in both sources and then contrasted. Thus, the analysis is both quantitative and qualitative. The results show that direct borrowings, especially integral Anglicisms and adapted words, are more frequent than indirect borrowings, structural calques, and semantic calques. The lexical units have been looked up in the different versions (print and online) of the Diccionario de la lengua española (Dictionary of the Spanish Language), as well as other lexicographic sources and specialized works to check their integration in Spanish and their provenance from the English language. Apart from the onomatopoeias and initials, which are taken directly in their English form, the Anglicisms used by young people in the corpus are mainly integrated in the reference lexicographic sources, showing no special use or further creativity on the part of the speakers.