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This comprehensive study of Anglicisims in the
context of accelerated neological activity in
Contemporary Metropolitan French not only provides detailed documentation and
description of a fascinating topic, but opens up new vistas on issues of
general linguistic interest: the effects of technology on language, the
analyticity-syntheticity controversy, the lexical
contribution to language vitality, the study of compound word formation, the
interplay between cultural and linguistic affectivity. By investigating the
dynamics of borrowing within the larger framework of general neological productivity and by bringing to bear cognitive
and pragmatic considerations, a much-needed fresh approach to the entire
question of Anglicisms emerges.
All pertinent phenomena regarding Anglicisms in
French - a topic which continues to command the attention of language
commentators and defenders in France
and elsewhere - are explored: integral borrowings, semantic calques,
structural calques, the generation of pseudo-Anglicisms
and hybrids, graphological and phonological
phenomena. In each case, the phenomenon is investigated in the proper context
of its interaction with the other pertinent neological
and sociocultural developments. These include
general changes in French compound word formation, modified derivational
dynamics, the micro-system of pseudo-Classical morphology, historic
phonological instabilities, and the pressure for more synthetic types of
lexical production in relation to the terminological needs of evolving
technology and society.
Reviews:
- by John Humbley, in Terminologies nouvelles, Vol. 17, 1997, pp. 65-67, in
French.
- by Vesna
Muhvic-Dimanovski, in Suvremena Lingvistika,
Vol. 23, 1997, pp. 448-449, in Croatian.
- by Franz Josef Hausmann, in Romanische
Forschungen, Vol. 110, 1998, pp. 319-320,
in German.
- by Manfred Görlach, in International Journal of Lexicography,
Vol. 11, 1998, pp.242-244, in English.
- by Bert Peeters, in Lexicology, Vol. 4, 1998, pp.
178-183, in French.
- by
Elizabeth A. Martin, in World Englishes,
Vol. 17, 1998, pp. 97-99, in English.
- by
Hilary Wise, in Modern Language Review, Vol. 94, January 1999, p.
190, in English. On-line
edition.
- by
Douglas C.Walker, in Canadian Journal of
Linguistics / Revue Canadienne de linguistique, Vol. 44, 1999, pp.112-114, in
English.
- by Joachim Lengert, in Zeitschrift
für romanische Philologie, Vol. 115, 1999, pp. 531-536, in
German.
- by Maria Teresa Zanola, in Studi
Francesi, Vol. 43, 1999, pp. 470-472, in
Italian.
- by Bernt
Mřller, in Hermes, 1999, pp. 198-203, in
English. On-line
edition.
- by Jean-René Klein, in Revue de
linguistique romane, Vol. 64, 2000, pp. 233-235, in French.
- by
Jean-René Klein, in Lingvisticć Investigationes, Vol. 23, 2000, pp197-199, in
French.
- by
Jeff Allen, in Journal of French Language Studies, Vol. 11, 2001,
pp. 292-293, in English. Cambridge
on-line edition.
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