This article explores linguistic variation (diatopic, diaphasic, diachronic, and situational) in the specific context of French “transfuge literature” as a form of “autosociobiography” (Ernaux, 2023). The paper focuses ...

The term “baroque” had a negative connotation for a long time from the 19th century onwards, leading to baroque music being forgotten and the corresponding terminology being abandoned. This particularly affected the lexicon ...

In cognitive studies, metaphor is seen as a conceptual interaction between two conceptual domains (Lakoff, Johnson, 1985; Kövecses, 2010). From the idea of the transfer of a concept into a foreign domain, it is possible ...

The article explores the role of francophonie as a methodological axis for pluricentric didactics, empha- sizing the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of language practices and educational cultures historical- ly and ...

Laura Alcoba, a French-Argentine writer, revised the Spanish translation (2014) of her work Le bleu des abeilles (2013) for the edition of the Trilogía de la casa de los conejos (2021), which brought together La casa de ...

The present work concerns the analysis of 244 verbs of the Neapolitan dialect prefixed in a- as such as appreparà (‘to prepare’). The hypothesis underlying the research is that these forms are representative of a more ...

This contribution focuses on a linguistic study of Michel Tremblay’s novel Victoire! (2020), with the aim of highlighting the devices used by this Quebec writer to represent different levels of orality. After briefly ...

In recent years, new fields of inquiry have opened up for argotologues: in fact, films also bear witness to “the evolution of argot”, as theorized by Goudailler (2006). The case of Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) seems very ...

The prosody of interrogative utterances displays high degrees of intra- and interlinguistic variability. Yet there are less investigated interrogative types, verbless questions that work as generic requests and new topic ...

As an oral lexicogenic process, verlan is not intended to be written down, but the question of its spelling may arise for lexicography, literature, intralinguistic subtitling and advertising. Based on a study of the spellings ...