Que dit la créativité lexicale de la crise de Covid-19 ? Le cas du français

Autor: Christine Jacquet-Pfau
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: L’art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches linguistiques. Le 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź ISBN: 9788382208795
DOI: 10.18778/8220-879-5.11
Popis: The COVID-19 pandemic, with its medical, economic and social implications, provides a unique opportunity to investigate the endless creativity it gave rise to in all areas, including language, showing just how society can cope with a crisis situation unprecedented in its duration and seriousness. The analysis carried out in this paper shows what lexical resources French provided to put into words a situation which utterly transformed behaviour and social norms. Certain typical keywords have been selected for analysis from the latest edition of a general language reference dictionary, „Le Petit Larousse illustré” 2022, including neologisms of meaning („confinement”), neologisms of form („quatorzaine”), direct or indirect loans and equivalents proposed („COVID-19”, „distanciation socjale”…). There are no playful occasionalisms to speak of in the dictionary corpus. The impact of the crisis situation on the reception of loanwords from English is also evaluated.
Databáze: OpenAIRE