Reflections on the theory of the art of writing often accompany the work of a writer. Camille Pert can be considered a particular representative of this trend; her keen interest in social issues led her to devote several ...

The communication we master, sometimes unconsciously or almost unconsciously, involves, upon analysis, a whole system of complex steps aimed at overcoming several ontological and noetic thresholds. Indeed, language assembles ...

This article analyses words and expressions used to say good things and bad things in Hungarian youth slang and is based on Dávid Szabó’s doctoral dissertation entitled L’argot des étudiants budapestois, published in 2004, ...

This article begins by reviewing studies aimed at establishing the terminology of modern slangology, a discipline halfway between lexicology/graphy and sociolinguistics, and concludes that there is a gap in recent work ...

This article analyzes the use of insults in French and Czech based on a questionnaire distributed among 200 native speakers (100 Czech, 100 French). It examines spontaneously mentioned insults, those directed at men and ...

Hip-hop, represented by rap as its main voice, embodies a complex youth and serves as an urban countermovement drawing from various influences. This “street reality” emerges as a reaction to the living conditions imposed ...

This article examines the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features of the insulting construction “(avoir) un QI de Npar” in French and “(mieć) IQ Npar(Gén)” in Polish, based on extensive data from internet corpora. The ...

This study examines the use of bird names as terms of insult in familiar and argotic French. Based on a corpus of 69 bird names, the analysis combines a lexicographic approach with an empirical survey of 92 informants. The ...

From a diatopic and diastratic point of view, Pataouète is the basilect (furthest variety from the prestigious form) of the Pied-Noir French of Algeria which appeared and was spoken, among other places, throughout the ...