Abstract
The access of women in all fields of activity has provoked fierce linguistic polemics on feminisation of names of professions which has represented a wide range of linguistic investigations in France and in many French-speaking countries such as Canada, Belgium and Switzerland. This paper aims to examine the manifestation of the process of feminisation of names of professions in the French press, in other words, to observe how feminisation of names of professions in the French written media discourse is applied, knowing the fact that the press represents a favourable environment in which two areas conjugate, namely, society and linguistics. Therefore, this study is part of a sociolinguistic framework and will follow two approaches, one regulatory, related to linguistic habits and the other, innovative, revealed by the actual language-based practices that concern the visibility of women on the linguistic level. This micro research is justified by the assumption already advanced that the media has a very important role in the enrichment of languages, accompanying the evolution of the society by familiarizing the readers with new forms denoting new realities, thereby facilitating their further use. The objectives of this study are the study in the French press of the feminine forms used to designate women, comparing these forms to those indicated in the feminization guides and the Dictionary of the French Academy, which is the linguistic norm. The second part of the study is dedicated to analysing the procedures used to create the feminine form, in case of finding a lexical variation, but also explaining the factors favouring the option of using a form or another. Keywords : French, sociolinguistics, feminisation, names of profession.
Highlights
With the culmination of the parity in politics and the equality of opportunity between men and women, we observe an acceleration of the feminization in the field of profession names in French from the linguistic point of view
This study wants itself to be enrolled in a sociolinguistic framework, aiming the feminization of names of professions in French, an issue that has stirred spirits in many Francophone countries
We could notice that the evolution of the feminisation of French found inspiration and motor in the debates and in the progression of extra linguistic feminisation, as language evolves in parallel with the status of women in the society
Summary
With the culmination of the parity in politics and the equality of opportunity between men and women, we observe an acceleration of the feminization in the field of profession names in French from the linguistic point of view. The choice of the theme is motivated by practical reasons, namely, we often encounter hesitations regarding the name of active women, increasingly numerous in various fields. This study wants itself to be enrolled in a sociolinguistic framework, aiming the feminization of names of professions in French, an issue that has stirred spirits in many Francophone countries (French-speaking Belgium, Switzerland, http://ijasos.ocerintjournals.org 152 Quebec, France). Mainly under the pressure of the public and media use, we will focus on the application of the feminization of names of professions in written media discourse. Newspapers consulting seem judicial, since we cannot find a better indicator to see the trends in the current language
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