Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French

Cover
Remade in France
Copyright
Dedication
contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Introducing French Anglicisms
	1.1. Demystifying Anglicisms
		1.1.1. Académie or government opposition
		1.1.2. Opposition from a linguist
	1.2. Anglicisms versus other-​language borrowings
	1.3. Written versus oral Anglicisms: written versus oral (French) language
	1.4. ‘Forgotten’ French Anglicisms and research agenda
	1.5. Content of the book
2. Methodology: The Dictionary Corpus and the Newspaper Corpus
	2.1. A dictionary corpus
		2.1.1. Presentation of the Petit Robert (CD-​ROM version)
		2.1.2. Inclusion of English words
		2.1.3. Dictionary-​sanctioned Anglicisms
	2.2. Online Libération corpus
		2.2.1. Language of the daily press
		2.2.2. Anglicisms and language of the press
		2.2.3. Choice and presentation of Libération
	2.3. Other sources for consulting and collecting Anglicisms
	2.4. Corpus linguistics for contact linguistics
		2.4.1. Text-​mining software: mining dictionary-​unattested words
		2.4.2. Selection criteria and flagging devices
		2.4.3. Database, or one year of dictionary-​unsanctioned English in Libération
3. From English to French: The Making of New Words
	3.1. Periods of influence: from the eighteenth-​century Anglomania to the global English of the turn of the twenty-​first century
		3.1.1. Eighteenth-​century anglomanie
		3.1.2. Nineteenth-​century technical terms and more
		3.1.3. More Anglomania at the dawn of the twentieth century
		3.1.4. Entre deux guerres: the debut of American English
		3.1.5. After 1945: intensification of American English
		3.1.6. Virtual language contact since 1990: English as a universal donor language
	3.2. Anglicisms: etymologically English versus recognized as English
	3.3. Lexical changes from the donor word
		3.3.1. Grammatical shift
		3.3.2. Semantic shift
		3.3.3. Stylistic shift
		3.3.4. Connotative shift or loaded Anglicisms
	3.4. Types of Anglicisms based on the restrictive criterion ‘recognized as English’
		3.4.1. English in form and denotation
		3.4.2. False Anglicisms
		3.4.3. Truncated compounds
		3.4.4. Derivatives: French/​English affixation on English/​French bases
		3.4.5. Serial bilingual compounds
		3.4.6. Nonce formations based on a bilingual play on words
		3.4.7. Orthographically or phonetically assimilated Anglicisms
	3.5. Beyond words: borrowing of English phraseology
		3.5.1. Famous phrases from the arts
		3.5.2. Idioms and proverbs
		3.5.3. Lexicalized slogans
		3.5.4. Expressions détournées
		3.5.5. Discourse and pragmatic markers
		3.5.6. Three-​element [Adj/N + Adj/N + N] phraseologisms
		3.5.7. False phrasal Anglicisms
		3.5.8. Interpretation of phrasal borrowing
	3.6. Summary
4. Dictionary-​unsanctioned Anglicisms
	4.1. Dictionary-​sanctioned versus -​unsanctioned
		4.1.1. Anglicisms from the Petit Robert 2015 first attested after 1990
		4.1.2. Ephemeral borrowed vocabulary
	4.2. Nonce and very low-​frequency Anglicisms
	4.3. Most frequent Anglicisms
	4.4. Borrowed closed-​class words
		4.4.1. Himself
		4.4.2. Stressed the
		4.4.3. Preposition-​like including, starring, and featuring
	4.5. So French: serial so + X
	4.6. Donor-​culture restricted: postcarding and global American pop culture
	4.7. Jargonistic ‘overuse’ of Anglicisms
	4.8. Brief report of selected functions
		4.8.1. Discourse functions of phrases: is back
		4.8.2. Code-​switching
		4.8.3. English is shorter
	4.9. Life cycle of Anglicisms
	4.10. Summary and conclusions
5. Nominal Anglicisms in the Plural
	5.1. Bare plurals in French
	5.2. Methodological detail
	5.3. Factors disfavoring inflection in French
		5.3.1. Compound Anglicisms with a non-​nominal second constituent
		5.3.2. Proper nouns
		5.3.3. Nouns ending in -​s, -​x, or -​z
		5.3.4. Initialisms and acronyms
		5.3.5. Nouns without a plural
		5.3.6. Irregular plural in English
		5.3.7. Nominalized onomatopoeia
		5.3.8. Flagging devices
	5.4. Some conclusions: so French
6. Adjectival Anglicisms in the Plural
	6.1. A morphological hypothesis for adjectival Anglicisms
	6.2. Inflection-​inhibiting constraints
		6.2.1. Incorporation of non-​native traits
		6.2.2. Uninflected English adjectives complying with French morphology
	6.3 Adjectives versus nouns
	6.4 Summary
7. Conclusion: What is an Anglicism?
Appendix: Database
References
Index of words and phrases
Subject index