OK – une histoire connue ?

In this paper, I describe the arrival of ok (originally O.K., later OK, ok, okay) from the United States to Europe, focusing on the emergence and evolution of its French equivalent (ok, okay, oké). On the basis of a corpus study, relying mostly but not exclusively on literary texts, I show tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin Fagard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Lille 2019-12-01
Series:Lexique
Online Access:http://www.peren-revues.fr/lexique/index.php?id=342