The purpose of this article is to present and analyse the terms found in two dictionaries published in the twilight of the 18th century, namely Dictionnaire comique by Philibert-Joseph Le Roux (1786) and Dictionnaire de ...

This paper analyses the French causative construction ‘faire boire’ and its equivalents in the Polish language. The basic causative predicate which translates the sense of faire boire is the verb ‘poić’ and its prefixal ...

The name of what is usually the first drink in our lives does not seem to be a very original object of interest. However, it belongs to a group of well-known and widely used words, and, therefore, I would like to look at ...

Binge drinking is a phenomenon of excessive alcohol use that is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide, mainly among young people. The purpose of binge drinking, already known officially as beuverie express in French, ...

During the Great War (1914-1918), soldiers were bruised in their flesh and their spirit during bloody battles (Goudaillier, 2016). The food designations for poilus (French soldiers) were presented in a previous publication; ...

This article aims at treating the lexical field of the ALCOHOL, which is extremely rich in all slangs, including the Romanian slang. Without pretending to be exhaustive – which is practically impossible under the conditions ...

At first glance, it may seem surprising that Denis Poulot’s book, titled Question sociale. Le Sublime ou le travailleur tel qu’il est en 1870, et ce qu’il peut être (1870), can be taken into consideration for an argot ...

The theme of love occupies an important place in contemporary French children’s poetry, being present in very different aspects. The best represented one is love between parents and children. Affective vocabulary, diminutives ...

The youth language located in the suburbs since the ’90s finds its place in the contemporary novel. The authors chosen for analysis focus on sentiment constraints that adolescents confront in the suburbs with its codes and ...