Aspects de la reconfiguration sémantique des gallicismes du roumain: le cas des meubles [pour dormir]
On the Semantic Reconfiguration of Romanian Gallicisms: the Case of Furniture [for Sleeping]

Summary/Abstract: The French influence was the undisputed major method of enriching and modernizing Romanian language, of redefining its Neo-Latin physiognomy in the territory of South-East European Romanity.This paper aims at briefly presenting the results of the project Reconfigurarea semantică a galicismelor în spaţiul socio-cultural românesc (The Semantic Reconfiguration of Gallicisms in the Romanian Socio-Cultural Area – FROMISEM-II), whose objectives were as follows: (1) a deeper semantic analysis of Gallicisms based on the grid drawn up in the FROMISEM project; (2) pursuing the analysis on the accuracy of the concept of multiple etymology in Romanian lexicology for loans from several sources, French included, or for learned words (from scholarly Latin) having entered the language via French; (3) a correlation between linguistic analysis and the extra-linguistic level, to emphasize the loanword's role as (i) a socio-cultural marker reflecting social, political and cultural mutations in the life of a community at a given moment; (ii) the indicator of a mentality universe; (iii) an axiologically distinctive element between languages. This latter approach of Gallicisms from a semantic-pragmatic perspective has not been very frequent in Romanian linguistics, which supports the pursuit of this research direction, thus ensuring the originality, significance and relevance of the proposed perspective.The semantic-pragmatic study of Gallicisms will be supported by lexemes making up the conceptual field of furniture in Romanian language, based on the semic features classified as prototypical in configuring the semanteme of each analysed word, i.e. by making a parallel between the semantic evolution of the concerned lexical units and the social and cultural evolution of Romanian society, seen in synchrony or diachrony.

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