TY - EJOUR TI - Do languages convey values? T2 - Les Cahiers du dictionnaire 2020, n° 12. Dictionnaire et démocratie. Dictionnaire et enfer DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11316-4.p.0071 SN - 2262-0419 AB - In the stream of Alain Rey's, this paper aims to describe some effects of borrowing words from a language to another. Some manuscripts relatively unknown from Saussure are summoned up as introduction. The word apartheid cannot be used easily without his connotations. These types of words are heavily loaded with history and cannot be transposed as such, far from the context or the situation they represent. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/27 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier KW - Language, linguistic policy, etymology, semantics, connotation Y2 - 2024/07/17 ER -