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<p>The objective of this article is to analyze the composition by amalgam in current French by focusing on the one hand on the notion of amalgam in linguistics and on the other hand on the use and the frequency of use of the chosen amalgams in the diatopic variation of French. The notion of amalgam and / or of portmanteau word does not seem obvious and the explanations or definitions offered by dictionaries as well as by works on lexicology are not unanimous and differ from one another. Before presenting the results of a more detailed research, we therefore find it essential to frame the contribution in a theoretical context dealing with the notion of amalgam, or even of portmanteau word, which allows us to better understand the whole problem.</p>
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The objective of this article is to analyze the composition by amalgam in current French by focusing on the one hand on the notion of amalgam in linguistics and on the other hand on the use and the frequency of use of the chosen amalgams in the diatopic variation of French. The notion of amalgam and / or of portmanteau word does not seem obvious and the explanations or definitions offered by dictionaries as well as by works on lexicology are not unanimous and differ from one another. Before presenting the results of a more detailed research, we therefore find it essential to frame the contribution in a theoretical context dealing with the notion of amalgam, or even of portmanteau word, which allows us to better understand the whole problem.

Some observations on the composition by blending in contemporary French from Petit Robert

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The objective of this article is to analyze the composition by amalgam in current French by focusing on the one hand on the notion of amalgam in linguistics...

Some observations on the composition by blending in contemporary French from Petit Robert

Published Online: Aug 17, 2022

Page range: 906 - 915

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2022-0015

Keywords
blending, French language, lexicography, loanword, diatopy

© 2022 Radka Mudrochová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Some observations on the composition by blending in contemporary French from Petit Robert

Published Online: Aug 17, 2022

Page range: 906 - 915

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2022-0015

Keywordsblending, French language, lexicography, loanword, diatopy

© 2022 Radka Mudrochová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
blending, French language, lexicography, loanword, diatopy