How different types of linguistic corpora shed light (or not) on various categories of substandard lexicon: contrastive analysis of vocabulary in the comedy "Les Kaïra" [Porn in the hood], a typical example of the hood film genre Cover Image

Comment les différents types de corpus linguistiques éclairent (ou non) les différents types du lexique substandard: analyse contrastive à partir du vocabulaire de la comédie "Les Kaïra", exemple typique du genre filmique dit "de banlieue"
How different types of linguistic corpora shed light (or not) on various categories of substandard lexicon: contrastive analysis of vocabulary in the comedy "Les Kaïra" [Porn in the hood], a typical example of the hood film genre

Author(s): Alena Podhorná-Polická, Anne-Caroline Fiévet
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: substandard verbs; French; neology; film dialogues; corpus linguistics; hood films

Summary/Abstract: The arrival of WaC corpora, including Aranea family corpora, with its "close-to-spoken language" writings from different non-formal web pages brought the new options to researchers of sociolects, mainly to those who were previously obliged to observe youth collectives in its spontaneous discourses with its consequent time-consuming transcripts. Non-spontaneous spoken language from rap songs or youth film dialogues also help researchers to describe the level of societal diffusion of some typical features of youth slang. In this paper, we focus on demonstration of these crossed approaches in order to describe three types of verbs, used in a successful comedy about Parisian peri-urban post-adolescents Les Kaïra (2012), representing different types of substandard lexicon.

  • Issue Year: 72/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 927-941
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French