Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic on Tunisian French Vocabulary Cover Image

Vliv pandemie koronaviru na změny ve slovní zásobě tuniské francouzštiny
Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic on Tunisian French Vocabulary

Author(s): Jaromír Kadlec
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Neologismus; okazionalismus; slovní zásoba; Tunisko; francouzština

Summary/Abstract: The article describes and analyses the changes in Tunisian French vocabulary that were brought about by the Coronavirus pandemic. The common language borrows lexical units from academic language and foreign languages, particularly from English language. It can be observed that the usage frequency of commonly seldom used expressions is growing as well as the number of occasionalisms. However, there are far fewer units borrowed from academic and from English language in Tunisian French than in French used in France. The number of occasionalisms is also significantly smaller.

  • Issue Year: 103/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 109-121
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Czech