The struggle of classes and parties in the language of the Great French Revolution

Authors

  • Konstantin Nikolaevich Derzhavin Universidade de Brasília

Keywords:

Revolution, neologisms, language evolution, language adaptation.

Abstract

The objective of the article is to point out some influences of the 1789-1793 Revolution in the French language. In the same line of a previous and more extense analysis done by Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), the essay shows that the language adapts to the social upheavals pratically at all levels. Among them there are many neologisms, change of meanings of already-extant words, intensification of the use of some patterns of construction as, for instance, the intensive use of the prefix dé- (de-) as well as of suffixes like -eur (-or, -er).

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Author Biography

Konstantin Nikolaevich Derzhavin, Universidade de Brasília

Konstantin Nikolaevich Derzhavin (1903-1956): estudioso de língua e literatura espanhola e francesa e, a partir de 1945, de cultura eslava. Foi membro da Academia Búlgara de Ciências.

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Published

2018-08-29

How to Cite

Derzhavin, K. N. (2018). The struggle of classes and parties in the language of the Great French Revolution. Ecolinguística: Revista Brasileira De Ecologia E Linguagem (ECO-REBEL), 4(2), 34–40. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/12357

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Articles

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