Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica (Aug 2021)

Les anglicismes en français et en tchèque contemporains : le cas des formes en –ing

  • Emmanuel Cartier,
  • Jan Lazar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2021.6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 4
pp. 117 – 132

Abstract

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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).