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Le mot fresh en français et en tchèque – analyse contrastive des corpus dans une perspective culinaire
The word fresh in French and Czech: A contrastive analysis of corpora in a culinary perspective

Author(s): Radka Mudrochová, Jan Lazar, Fabrice Hirsch
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: French; Czech; neology; fresh; slang

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to compare a sample of neological loanwords from the gastronomic sector in French and Czech. The idea of the comparative conception mentioned in the title of the article is based on the international project entitled “EmpNéo” (Neological Loanwords), which aims to compare the diffusion of neological loanwords in various languages. In this study, we would like to focus on the word fresh and its perception in Czech and French. Our aim is to find out if this word is known to the general public or, on the contrary, it works as an argotic expression, which is only known to a limited audience. To answer this question, we analyzed the different kinds of corpus and also studied in detail the occurrence of this word in the press.

  • Issue Year: 20/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 85-98
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: French