1st Edition
The Vocabulary of Modern French Origins, Structure and Function
By Hilary Wise
Copyright 1997
272 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Vocabulary of Modern French provides a fresh insight into contemporary French. With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions. Topics covered include: * external influences on the language * word formation * semantic change * style and register In... Read more
List of figures, maps and tables, Preface, List of phonetic symbols and abbreviations 1 Questions and concepts 2 The lexical foundations of French 3 Les racines nobles: borrowing from Latin and Greek 4 The Romance contribution 5 English influence: good neighbours or false friends? 6 New words for old: the derivational processes of French 7 Cognitive processes and semantic change 8 Lexis in society 9 Lexis in context 10 Argot: from criminal slang to la langue des jeunes 11 Codification, control and linguistic mythology
Biography
Hilary Wise is Senior Lecturer in French at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
'Her full, informative, and very sensible study remains engagingly readablethis book is overall intelligently conceived and judiciously executed.' - Stephen F. Noreiko, French Language Studies (Vol 10)
