French Linguistic Research Articles

Translation and French Linguistic Validation of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index and the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Global Score in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis.

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) may lead to functional and physical disturbances. Self-administered questionnaires can measure functional limitations associated to axSpA. If these questionnaires are currently used in clinical practice and research, the French version of these questionnaires has not been validated. The aim of this study was to translate and perform a linguistic validation of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI) and the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Global score (BAS-G) in French. The study has been approved by local ethic committee and is registered in Clinical Trial (NCT04212806). The translation process was performed through a forward/backward validation process, followed by clinician experts validation and patient cognitive interviews. The two questionnaires were translated into a French version by two independent translators. Translators then agreed on sentences being different between the two translations. The backward translation was equivalent to the initial English version except for two questions. Five French clinician experts on rheumatology made essential changes in sentences constructions of the translated questionnaire. The last version of the questionnaires was presented to 5 patients with axSpA which all found them clear and understandable. BASFI and BAS-G would be a generally reliable instrument for patients with axSpA. These questionnaires can be widely used in clinical practice and research in French-speaking population. The use of these questionnaires is expected to have a positive impact on patient care to better understand physical consequences of axSpA.

Francisation of Sponsor, Coach, and Start-up – the Perspective of the French Linguistic Policy

The article concerns one of the important elements of the cultural policies implemented in France and Quebec, that is, their linguistic policies. Although they are two distinct, French-speaking territories on two sides of the Atlantic, their policies share some important elements. The article focuses on one of them – the approach to foreign terms, which today are mostly American terms, permeating into the French language and the French terms recommended by special governmental organisations in France and Quebec that are supposed to replace these foreign terms. After a brief outline of the two policies and general principles of francisation of foreign terms, the work-ings of the process of francisation are analysed. The object of analysis are terms recommended as equi-valents of three English terms from the area of management and marketing: sponsor, coach, and start-up. Adopting the linguistic point of view, it is shown that francisation involves a reference to many di-verse dimensions – involving both the structural, cultural, and conceptual level.

Communicative and Pragmatic Features of Everyday Media Discourse in French Linguistic Culture

The article studies the communicative and pragmatic features of everyday media discourse based on the material of French mass-media, particularly, on the Internet commentary as one of the genres in the field of the most important French media events. Based on the empirical material, the following communicative and pragmatic characteristics of Internet comments are identified: interactivity, creativity, authenticity, emotional intensity, brevity. The results of the study underline the importance of further studying the everyday French media discourse, its linguistic and cultural features, and the importance of making a contrastive-comparative analysis of the Internet comments to the same events by different linguistic cultures (French, Russian, English, etc.), in order to highlight ethnospecific and universal methods of social interaction in everyday virtual discourse and in everyday media discourse in particular.

A Study of the Neologisms for the Development of French Linguistic and Cultural Competence - A Focus on the Neologisms Appearing in Major Daily Newspapers.

A Study of the Neologisms for the Development of French Linguistic and Cultural Competence - A Focus on the Neologisms Appearing in Major Daily Newspapers.

La notion d’ altérité en linguistique française française

The notion of otherness is conceived variously according to theoretical approach-es within Romance linguistics. Although operational among Spanish and Portuguese linguists, it is nevertheless in the writings of French linguists that this term ends up impos-ing itself in line with a long linguistic tradition whose exploration constitutes the goal of this research. In order to shed light on the notion of otherness, it is considered in connec-tion with other concepts widely discussed in current linguistics, such as shown heteroge-neity / constitutive heterogeneity, polyphony, dialogism, subjectivity, truth, etc., This con-nection brings out the different modes of presence of the Other and the various forms of apprehension of the otherness / identity relationship in French linguistic literature.

O budowaniu znaczeń w dyskursie prasowym w ujęciu komparatywnym – na przykładzie zamachów w Norwegii w 2011 roku

About construction of meanings in the press discourse – the comparative approach, based on the example of Norway attacks in 2011The purpose of the article is to describe and analyse the meanings which the media construct in relation to real events ‘événement réel’ by the example of Anders Breivik’s attacks in Norway in 2011. The paper is a comparative analysis of the media productions in three countries – Poland, France and the United Kingdom. The authors use the French Linguistic Discourse Analysis FLAD methods to determine the keywords ‘mot vedette’ – the most common words or phrases naming the event – reconstruct referential paradigms ‘paradigme désignationnel’ – the lists of expressions that rephrase the keywords – and then deliberate their social meanings. The article textualizes similarities and differences of the social meanings of the event in different European countries and contemplates the collective memory of Europeans.

ТЕРМІНОЛОГІЯ ФРАНЦУЗЬКОЇ ЛІНГВІСТИКИ ТА ЛІНГВІСТИЧНА СИНЕРГЕТИКА

In the article on the base of the linguistic synergetics concept of G. G. Piotrovsky the problems of French linguistics metalanguage, issues of linguistic terminology are examined. The author emphasizes that the metalanguage of linguistics is a complex phenomenon, which, on the one hand, there are the system relations between terms, on the other one there are general academic vocabulary, words and phrases that are used when describing various aspects of linguistic research. Terminology of linguistics requires a special effort in the studying, because the object-language and metalanguage coincide in terms of expression, that is, have the same substance. The article presents the analysis of the metalanguage state of French linguistics, which is a diachronic interweaving of numerous schools and directions, author’s theories and concepts; the distinctive features of the French linguistic terminology are examined. It is noted that in the semiotic aspect the French linguistic terminology is characterized by the following properties: French linguistic term is a simple or complex sign that in the framework of French linguistics embodies a linguistic concept in its meaning. Terminological field of French linguistics meets the semantic space that is a counterpart of the French linguistics as a special subject area and includes the totality of semantic fields of general linguistic, grammatical, phonetic, phonological and lexicological terms.

Book review: Gaëlle Planchenault, Voices in the Media: Performing French Linguistic Otherness

Book review: Gaëlle Planchenault, <i>Voices in the Media: Performing French Linguistic Otherness</i>

Voices in the Media: Performing French Linguistic Otherness by Gaëlle Planchenault

<i>Voices in the Media: Performing French Linguistic Otherness</i> by Gaëlle Planchenault

Polysemy in Linguistic Terminological Systems Based on the Analysis of French Linguistic Terms

The article reports on the features of polysemy in French terminological systems of linguistics at inter-system and intra-system levels. The existing studies concerning terminological semantics allow pointing out two aspects of the term structure: a semantic structure representing a complex of meanings, and a structure of the terminological meaning representing a complex of semes. The first aspect supposes the analysis of terminological polysemy regarded as a negative characteristic of terms. According to the second aspect some particularities of denotative and significative levels and their correlation to scientific concepts can be analyzed. In the given study the component analysis of the definitions of French terms – such as ‘sémantème’, ‘mot’ and ‘signe’ – reveals different types of polysemy and terminological variation. The analysis of semantic structures of these terms shows that terminological deviations are caused by objective differences at significative and denotative levels of the meaning as well as by the subjective use of occasional contexts of terms in linguistic research. The suggested results allow constructing a new classification of meaning relations of linguistic terms. Each type of relations is correlated to different elements of the term structure. The hierarchy of these elements is embodied into an abstract model that can be applied for the analysis of any term of the modern linguistic terminology.

ТЕЗАУРУСНОЕ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ МЕТАЯЗЫКА СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ЛИНГВИСТИКИ

The article deals with the problems connected with the thesaurus lexicography development. The key point is dedicated to modern linguistics metalanguage the basic component of which is linguistic terminology. The given article considers the thesaurus modelling technology of the linguistic terms semantics viewed in foreign and Russian linguistics. Special attention is paid to the survey of current investigations in the study field found in papers of scholars of the “Theory and Translation practice” Department (Togliatti State University), particularly the thesaurus model of French linguistics metalanguage (Yu.I. Gorbunov) is being analyzed. The current model includes three modules reflecting the basic branches of French linguistics: grammar, phonetics and lexicology. The results of the thesaurus modelling of French sociolinguistic terminology studied by E.Yu. Sennitskaya are being considered. Her scientific research resulted in French-Russian sociolinguistic thesaurus (ideographic type of dictionary) viewed as a lexicographic model of information-semiotic nature of French sociolinguistic metalanguage. The significant part of the article is given to the analysis of the results of the English linguistics metalanguage scientific research. In this perspective the scientific works by E.Yu. Gorbunov are of special interest, suggesting the practical use of the thesaurus technology towards the investigation of the semiotic nature of the English morphology and morphosyntax metalanguage. In her turn Yu.V. Vedernikova refers to the methodology of the thesaurus modelling as well, studying the semantic features of the English cognitive linguistics terminology. Her scientific research resulted in the English cognitive linguistics terminology thesaurus provided with its electronic platform. The scientific research by I.I. Zhuchkova is of special interest implementing the thesaurus modelling technology towards the English text linguistics terminology. The linguistic model built by I.I. Zhuchkova represents in its system-structured view the basic part of the English text linguistics metalanguage. As a result of analysis of current English and French linguistic terminology thesaurus models we may conclude that there is a special need to use them as a lingvodidactic tool of linguistic professional competence formation.

The French in the United States: an ethnographic study

Preface Introduction Overview of French Migration to North America French Ethnicity on the American Scene Voyage to The West Integration into American Society: Socio-Demographic Factors of Acculturation Life at Home and Beyond: Behavioral and Interactional Factors of Acculturation Perceptual Dimensions of Ethnicity The French Linguistic Heritage Conclusion Appendix: The Interview Guide Bibliography Index

From Malherbe to the French Academy onQuinte-Curce:The Role of Observations, Translations and Commentaries in French Linguistic Thought

From Malherbe to the French Academy on<i>Quinte-Curce:</i>The Role of Observations, Translations and Commentaries in French Linguistic Thought

From Malherbe to the French Academy on &lt;I&gt;Quinte-Curce:&lt;/I&gt; The Role of Observations, Translations and Commentaries in French Linguistic Thought

From Malherbe to the French Academy on &lt;I&gt;Quinte-Curce:&lt;/I&gt; The Role of Observations, Translations and Commentaries in French Linguistic Thought

Guide Bibliographique de Phraséologie Française Avec Index Thématique 1900-1990

In spite of the fact that phraseology, a discipline concerned with more or less fixed elements extant in all languages, owes its existence to preeminent French linguists (M. Bréal, Ch. Bally), it was quite a neglected area of French linguistic research for a long time. However, recent developments show a marked increase of interest in this particular field, manifest in the multiplication of publications as well. It is then all the more justified that the present international bibliography on the phraseology of the French language, a long-needed compilation of works published from 1900 to 1990 listing about 550 items at present that may well be enlarged in the future, has been published.

Review. French Liaison and Linguistic Theory. Klausenburger, Jurgen

Review. French Liaison and Linguistic Theory. Klausenburger, Jurgen

French Liaison and Linguistic Theory

French Liaison and Linguistic Theory

Reports concerning French Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Period 1940-1945

Reports concerning French Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Period 1940-1945