Semantic Anglicisms in French Internet Forum
Semantic assimilation is a many-sided and a multidimensional phenomenon assuming a number of analysis approaches. The article is a study of the semantic borrowing process due to either graphical or phonetic identity of lexical units. It discusses general semantic transformations of the English langu...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2020-12-01
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| author | Larisa N. Lunkova Liliya M. Bukina |
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| description | Semantic assimilation is a many-sided and a multidimensional phenomenon assuming a number of analysis approaches. The article is a study of the semantic borrowing process due to either graphical or phonetic identity of lexical units. It discusses general semantic transformations of the English language borrowings alongside with the examples of semantic anglicisms in the French Internet discourse. The global tendency is that the French language is daily receipting quite a number of English words the Internet discourse being one of the leading media. To specify the borrowing patterns in the French language at the semantic level the net forum genre is chosen as a specific combination of oral and written speech features giving a most outstanding and evident picture of all linguistic tendencies. The work is an attempt to define what a semantic anglicism is and what linguistic mechanisms are involved in the process when French lexemes undergo semantic transformations due to their either graphical or phonetic likeness to English ones. The research topicality is conditioned by the nature of the global Internet discourse itself the latter being the speech type abundant in all kinds of borrowings anglicisms in particular. The research background is the legal French policy to defend the national language and the French linguists struggle against anglicisms overwhelming penetration into French. The analysis is also held through experimental French native speakers interviewing for the excessive use of English words and its expediency. The research methods are structural-semantic, comparative, statistical. The units under study are English language semantic borrowings in the French internet forum held by native French language speakers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da3e3d5ddaa842928c14b95df9c8e6952022-12-22T00:50:54ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics2313-22992411-12362020-12-011119210110.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-1-92-10118560Semantic Anglicisms in French Internet ForumLarisa N. Lunkova0Liliya M. Bukina1State Educational Institution of Higher Education of Moscow Region State University of Humanities and Social StudiesState Educational Institution of Higher Education of Moscow Region State University of Humanities and Social StudiesSemantic assimilation is a many-sided and a multidimensional phenomenon assuming a number of analysis approaches. The article is a study of the semantic borrowing process due to either graphical or phonetic identity of lexical units. It discusses general semantic transformations of the English language borrowings alongside with the examples of semantic anglicisms in the French Internet discourse. The global tendency is that the French language is daily receipting quite a number of English words the Internet discourse being one of the leading media. To specify the borrowing patterns in the French language at the semantic level the net forum genre is chosen as a specific combination of oral and written speech features giving a most outstanding and evident picture of all linguistic tendencies. The work is an attempt to define what a semantic anglicism is and what linguistic mechanisms are involved in the process when French lexemes undergo semantic transformations due to their either graphical or phonetic likeness to English ones. The research topicality is conditioned by the nature of the global Internet discourse itself the latter being the speech type abundant in all kinds of borrowings anglicisms in particular. The research background is the legal French policy to defend the national language and the French linguists struggle against anglicisms overwhelming penetration into French. The analysis is also held through experimental French native speakers interviewing for the excessive use of English words and its expediency. The research methods are structural-semantic, comparative, statistical. The units under study are English language semantic borrowings in the French internet forum held by native French language speakers.http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/viewFile/23045/17884semantic assimilationanglicismlanguage situationinternet forumfrenchborrowinglegislative policy |
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| title | Semantic Anglicisms in French Internet Forum |
| title_full | Semantic Anglicisms in French Internet Forum |
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| title_short | Semantic Anglicisms in French Internet Forum |
| title_sort | semantic anglicisms in french internet forum |
| topic | semantic assimilation anglicism language situation internet forum french borrowing legislative policy |
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