Reflexions sur certains sens « oubliés » dans le lexique du français contemporain (illustrés d’exemples d’auteurs classiques)
Reflections on Certain “Forgotten” Meanings in Contemporary French Lexicon (Illustrated with Examples from Classical Authors)

Summary/Abstract: The present study intends to be a linguistic and semantic approach of lexemes (viewed in their bipolar unity: associated expression to a semantic content), having as support the literary works of classical authors. The two axes around which our research is centred on are represented by the analysis of semantic networks and the different diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic connotations of the lexis. We present our hypothesis according to which the word represents a living entity submitted to temporal changes. Our aim is to highlight this particular aspect through two adopted approaches: an onomasiological one (starting from the linguistic form of the word and the expressed meaning), and a semasiological one (selections of the updated meanings in the present context). Far from being an exhaustive presentation, this paper is only a starting point, a partial opening to both a complex and fascinating field.

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