French language: how did the year 2020 nourish the Newspeak?
Audio 29:00
Word Cloud 2020 © Cécile Lavolot / RFI
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
"Barrier gestures", "social distancing", "face-to-face" if the Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to feeding the newspeak, words from political debates such as "5G" or "wildness" have also entered into everyday vocabulary .
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Who invents these words and how are they disseminated on a daily basis?
What are the stakes of all these neologisms?
Guest:
Amina Belhadj
, doctoral student, expert within the
“Mots-Clefs” agency
which publishes the annual review
“Novlangue”,
an annual review which deciphers the issues of influence behind the big words of 2020.
And the column Ailleurs which takes us, this week, to Los Angeles with
Lucie Carette
, audiovisual attaché based in Los Angeles at the head of a project on the creation of a French series writing residency in Los Angeles.
All the info here.
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