The French language, in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic!
Audio 29:00
Bernard Cerquiglini.
@ Larousse
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
In 2020 and 2021, a terrible pandemic hit the whole world.
Our society and our lives have been permanently upset ... How inventive our French language has been to talk about this virus?
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“Coronanniversary” “derogatory displacement” with many neologisms and new meanings of words and expressions: how did the French language fight against the COVID 19 pandemic?
Guest:
Bernard Cerquiglini,
linguist, specialist in the French language.
Author of
"Chronicle of a French language in resilience"
(Editions Larousse)
Also with the intervention of
Doctor Yap Boum II
, epidemiologist and biologist in Yaoundé.
Regional representative of
Epicenter,
the Research and epidemiology branch of
Médecins sans frontières.
Interview by
Cécile Lavolot.
And the Chronicle Ailleurs, takes us today to Argentina with
Stéphane Chouin
, cultural attaché for Argentina and Live show relay for Spanish-speaking South America at
the French Institute of Argentina
with the call for projects of
Tintas Frescas
,
support for contemporary dramatic writings.
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