Borrowings in the French Contemporary of the Cités (FCC): several decades of permanent turnover Cover Image

Emprunts en Français Contemporain des Cités (FCC) : plusieurs décennies d’un turnover permanent
Borrowings in the French Contemporary of the Cités (FCC): several decades of permanent turnover

Author(s): Jean-Pierre Goudaillier
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: French Contemporary Speech (FCC); borrowings; lexical turnovers; verlan; emprunts; mot metises; turnover lexical; verlanisation
Summary/Abstract: In Francais Contemporain des Cites (Contemporary French) there is a relatively large number of loans, mainly to the languages practiced by people from the immigrant communities. Such borrowing, which has largely emerged in recent decades, is part of an ongoing process of renewing and / or replacing lexemes employed, in particular by speakers in so-called disadvantaged neighborhoods. Consequently, in dynamic synchronism, indigenous and non-native terms compete with each others and a permanent turnover is established between borrowed lexemes and circulating lexemes of standard French,. This testifies to the current dynamic between two antagonistic positions, namely an acceptance of the borrowing as such towards a more or less important assimilation of these. // En Francais Contemporain des Cites (FCC) on note l’existence d’un nombre relativement important d’emprunts, essentiellement aux langues pratiquees par des ressortissant(e)s de communautes issues de l’immigration. De tels emprunts, en grande partie apparus lors des dernieres decennies, s’inscrivent dans un processus permanent de renouvellement et/ou de remplacement de lexemes employes plus particulierement par des locuteur(e)s des quartiers dits defavorises. De ce fait, en synchronie dynamique, des termes autochtones et allochtones se concurrencent les uns avec les autres et un turnover permanent s’instaure entre des lexemes empruntes et des lexemes du francais standard, circulant. Ceci temoigne de la dynamique actuelle existant entre deux positions antagonistes, a savoir une acceptation des emprunts tels quels envers une assimilation plus ou moins importante de ceux-ci.

  • Page Range: 159-165
  • Page Count: 7
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Language: French