Anglicisms in Contemporary French and Czech: A Case Study on -ing Lexical Formations Cover Image

Les anglicismes en français et en tchèque contemporains : le cas des formes en –ing
Anglicisms in Contemporary French and Czech: A Case Study on -ing Lexical Formations

Author(s): Emmanuel Cartier, Jan Lazar
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: anglicism; neology; French; Czech; -ing formation

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the neological borrowings from English that occur in contemporary French and Czech. Special emphasis is placed on neological borrowings with the -ing suffix. Considering the lingua franca status of anglo-american for several decades, anglicisms diffuse in all languages, and we would like to compare specifically the processes at stake for the -ing formations. After a quantitative analysis of the respective diffusion and productivity in both languages, we focus on a few specific words (phishing, géochaching, sharing, washing), attested in both languages, and compare their integration from several perspectives (phonological, orthographical, morphological, semantic and local variants).

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 117-132
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French