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English loanwords and French equivalents in a corpus of esportscasts

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal: Cahiers de lexicologie
    2022 – 1, n° 120
    . Varia
  • Author: Kraeber (Sophie)
  • Abstract: In line with a number of studies on the influence of digital technology on language, this paper studies the frequency of English loanwords and their French equivalents in several types of French videogame discourses, a research subject too little studied in linguistics. It is shown that, like French players, French casters of professional videogame games massively use English loanwords despite having French equivalents at hand.
  • Pages: 121 to 147
  • Journal: Journal of Lexicology
  • CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage
  • EAN: 9782406133193
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-13319-3
  • ISSN: 2262-0346
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13319-3.p.0121
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 06-29-2022
  • Periodicity: Biannual
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: loanwords, Netspeak, Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis, esports, game studies.