Autour de la terminologie de l’argotologie moderne : axiologie de la langue verte
Terminology of Modern Slang: About the Axiology of the langue verte

Summary/Abstract: This article begins by reviewing studies aimed at establishing the terminology of modern slangology, a discipline halfway between lexicology/graphy and sociolinguistics, and concludes that there is a gap in recent work concerning the term langue verte (‘green language’). A hypothesis on the etymology of this expression is presented, based on the analysis of digitised historical documents, which provide new avenues for researchers to explore. A comparison of the definitions of this idiom in historical slang dictionaries, which are often misleading, with an analysis of its current use in an electronic corpus provides an observation on its notional evolution, conditioned by judgements with an axiological component. Our analysis shows that, in writing, the term langue verte, which for a long time carried a pejorative connotation, now offers literary critics an euphemistic use of the term argot.

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