The Vocabulary of Modern French: Origins, Structure and FunctionPsychology Press, 1997 - 256 páginas In this book, Hilary Wise provides a comprehensive overview of the lexis of contemporary French: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions.The Vocabulary of Modern French provides a fresh insight into contemporary French.With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organization and social and stylistic functions.Topics covered include:*external influences on the language*word formation*semantic change*style and registerIn addition, the author looks at the relationship between social and lexical change and examines attempts at intervention in the development of the language.Each chapter is concluded by notes for further reading, and by suggestions for project work which are designed to increase awareness of specific lexical phenomena and enable the student-reader to use lexicographical databases of all kinds.The Vocabulary of Modern French is an accessible and fascinating study of the relationship between a nation and its language, as well as providing a key text for all students of modern French. |
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Figures maps and tables FIGURES 1 The semantic field of siège | 6 |
Changes in a semantic field | 7 |
The relation of hyponymy | 9 |
Lexical paradigms associated with the root sens | 10 |
organised by conceptual field | 20 |
The lexical foundations of French | 26 |
The Celtic substrate | 32 |
History in place names | 38 |
Borrowings and hyponymy | 87 |
the derivational processes of French | 103 |
Cognitive processes and semantic change | 132 |
Synaesthetic transfer | 144 |
Lexis in society | 157 |
Circular on feminisation Journal Officiel 16 March 1986 | 166 |
Lexical transfer among taboo fields | 172 |
Lexis in context | 176 |
borrowing from Latin and Greek | 45 |
The Romance contribution | 59 |
Italian borrowings in French from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century | 65 |
good neighbours or false friends? | 79 |
Gallicisms in English from 1100 to the present | 80 |
Anglicisms in French from 1600 to the present | 82 |
Ticket and related items in English and French | 84 |
from criminal slang to la langue des jeunes | 202 |
The Romance languages 2335 27 | 204 |
Codification control and linguistic mythology | 220 |
Bibliography | 244 |
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The Vocabulary of Modern French: Origins, Structure and Function Hilary Wise Vista previa restringida - 2003 |
The Vocabulary of Modern French: Origins, Structure and Function Hilary Wise Vista previa restringida - 2003 |
The Vocabulary of Modern French: Origins, Structure and Function Hilary Wise No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
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