Colloquial vocabulary and politeness in French.

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 1999| | Copyright

In French, as in other languages, the powerful role played by vocabulary in marking shifts between formal and informal style, and in signalling the social identities of speakers, is well known. Public awareness of the opposition between 'standard' and 'non-standard' in the French lexicon is particularly strong: changing fashions in colloquial vocabulary (conventionally labelled fam., pop., vulg., arg. in the general dictionaries) attract a large amount of comment, from prescriptive guardians of usage, who see them as signs of an impending linguistic Apocalypse, to journalists ...

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