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Le Franglais : forbidden English, forbidden American : law, politics, and language in contemporary France : a study in loan words and national identity / Philip Thody, with the assistance of Howard Evans & Michelle Peptrax-Evans.
Van Pelt Library PC2582.E5 T46 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thody, Philip, 1928-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French language--Foreign words and phrases--English.
- French language.
- English language--Influence on French.
- English language.
- French language--Social aspects.
- National characteristics, French.
- English language--Gallicisms.
- French language--Influence on English.
- Physical Description:
- 300 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone, 1995.
- Summary:
- A study of the attempt by French politicians to use the law to forbid the use of words in English and American origin. Classifies some of these words and lists expressions in current use in American and England which are particularly difficult to render in French, comparing these with some equally untranslatable French turns of speech.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0485114763
- 0485121158
- OCLC:
- 33043741
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