Emigres (eBook)

French Words That Turned English

Richard Scholar (Autor)

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2020
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20958-6 (ISBN)

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The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases-such as a la mode, ennui, naivete and caprice-lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise elude the language. Richard Scholar examines the continuing history of untranslated French words in English and asks what these words reveal about the fertile but fraught relationship that England and France have long shared and that now entangles English- and French-speaking cultures all over the world.Emigres demonstrates that French borrowings have, over the centuries, "e;turned"e; English in more ways than one. From the seventeenth-century polymath John Evelyn's complaint that English lacks "e;words that do so fully express"e; the French ennui and naivete, to George W. Bush's purported claim that "e;the French don't have a word for entrepreneur,"e; this unique history of English argues that French words have offered more than the mere seasoning of the occasional mot juste. They have established themselves as "e;creolizing keywords"e; that both connect English speakers to-and separate them from-French. Moving from the realms of opera to ice cream, the book shows how migrant French words are never the same again for having ventured abroad, and how they complete English by reminding us that it is fundamentally incomplete.At a moment of resurgent nationalism in the English-speaking world, Emigres invites native Anglophone readers to consider how much we owe the French language and why so many of us remain ambivalent about the migrants in our midst.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: abigail breslin • academician • Adjective • Allegory • Ambivalence • ann radcliffe • Baldur von Schirach • Binary Opposition • Boredom • Calculation • Catholic Emancipation • Charles Baudelaire • Civility • classical latin • Close front unrounded vowel • Complicity (novel) • Conceptualization (information science) • connotation • Conservatism • Continental Europe • Cosmopolitanism • courtship • Creole peoples • Creolization • culture and society • Culture of France • Customs • denization • depiction • Derek Bickerton • Derek Walcott • dictionary • Die schweigsame Frau • double entendre • Durham University • Early Modern English • eeyore • Emblem • English Drama • English French relations • English Language • english people • english poetry • English-speaking world • English Today • English words borrowed from French • engraving • Epic Poetry • Epithet • Essay • etymology • Euripides • Exegesis • Fashion • Feminism • flirting • Foreign Language • foreign words in English • Franglais • french fashion • French Influence on English • French Language • French Literature • french nobility • French words imported into English • French words in English • Galanterie • Gallicisms • George Bowering • George Etherege • grammar • Headline • Hebrew Alphabet • Henrietta Maria of France • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • hiberno-english • His Family • History of English • history of language • huguenot • Illustration • independent woman • Ingenuity • Invective • Invention • Iphigenia in Aulis • Italianization • Italian renaissance • Jacques Derrida • James Howell • Jargon • Jean de la Fontaine • Jonathan Swift • Joseph Goebbels • Keywords • Kingdom of England • language change • Language contact • language in migration • Lexicography • Libretto • L'illusion comique • lingua franca • Literary criticism • Literature • Loanword • Marriage a la mode • Medical Writing • Metaphor • Michael Ondaatje • Michel de Montaigne • Misery (novel) • Mock-heroic • Modern English • modern language • Monsieur • Multilingualism • Musical setting • Narration • narrative • Nicolas Fouquet • Norman conquest of England • Norman Yoke • North America • noun • Novel • novelist • Oxford English Dictionary • Patrick Chamoiseau • Philosopher • Philotis (mythology) • Phrase • Playwright • Poet • Poet Laureate • Poetry • Precedent • preface • Prehistory • Prejudice • Preposition and postposition • Prince of Orange • Pronunciation • Prose • Psychomotor agitation • Publication • Reversal of fortune • rhetoric • Richard Flecknoe • ridicule • Romanticism • Rory Kinnear • Satire • Sharing • Sir Thomas More (play) • Sonnet • State of affairs (sociology) • Stiff Upper Lip • Suggestion • Sumptuary law • Superiority (short story) • Sympathy • Synonym • Tailor • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • The Man of Mode • The Moderns • The Naïve and Sentimental Lover • Theodor W. Adorno • The Realist • The Remains of the Day • The Song of Roland • The Various • Throne of England • toni collette • To this Day • Translation Studies • treatise • untranslatable words • Usage • vocabulary • V. S. Naipaul • Wealth • Western literature • William III of England • Women in England • Woolf • World literature • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20958-8 / 0691209588
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20958-6 / 9780691209586