The brunch and its network of anglicisms: Study on a specific corpus

Authors

  • Ramón Martí Solano Universidad de Limoges

Keywords:

brunch, ad hoc corpus, textual genre, Anglicism, foreignism, lexical associations

Abstract

A specific corpus is an ad hoc corpus compiled for a specific purpose. The present corpus was created by extracting texts of a sub-genre of the French press over the last five year having as the target word the Anglicism brunch. The main objective isto have a corpus in which every single text has at least one occurrence of the target word. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses concerning other words closely associated to brunch were carried out and particularly concerning other Anglicisms that gravitate around it as for instance street food or food truck. It should be noted that the use of an Anglicism from aspecific semantic field attracts other Anglicisms of the same field. The results of this study were compared with the results of theFrench press, especially with the data found in the online archives of the newspaper le Monde from 1944 to date. By doing so theirorigin, evolution, usage and institutionalisation in contemporary French have been delimited.

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2018-05-30

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Martí Solano, R. (2018). The brunch and its network of anglicisms: Study on a specific corpus. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 24(1), 123–141. Retrieved from https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/968

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2018): Revista de lenguas para fines específicos

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Sección Monográfica/Special Issue

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