Les grandes tendances de l’alternance des langues dans la presse écrite d’Algérie

Abstract

French, as it is spoken and read in Algeria, presents very important lexical variations that led us to inquire about some of these characteristics in the Algerian written press. We are more precisely interested in code switching and the discursivo-argumentative mechanisms which take part in modeling the French language employed in four newspapers namely, El Moudjahid, El Watan, La Tribune, Liberté. Analysis of the corpus reveals that the alternation of the Arabic, Berber and French languages, as it appears in these four daily newspapers, obeys to discursive strategies used by journalists in order to create a specifically Algerian communicational universe.

Keywords

• code switching
• multilingualism
• lexical particularisms
• lexical variation
• algerian francophone press