The economic speech in the french press

• Main Author: SCORȚAN, Daniela
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Technical University of Moldova 2019-06-01
• Series: Journal of Social Sciences
• Subjects: economic discourse; french press; metaphors; specialized vocabulary; linguistic dynamic
• Online Access: http://ibn.idsi.md/sites/default/files/imag_file/55-60_11.pdf

Our article aims to study the peculiarities of economic discourse through the analysis of economic articles from the French press of 2018. We notice the frequent use of metaphors, the trivialization of specialized vocabulary, and the use of terms of familiar origin. These peculiarities lead us to question the degree of specialization of the language of the economy in this context, and the existence of a linguistic dynamic as a response to economic instability. The corpus of our article is composed of several Romanian newspapers: The Echo, The Tribune, The Income, ThePoint, The Financial Economics Journal. We have developed a lexical statistics study on this corpus of newspapers, in order to extract the terms that appear most frequently. We have found that the economic discourse in the French press is a discourse on the economy, on economic themes, but we cannot consider it as typical of an economic discourse. This discourse is also constrained by the demands of the journalistic discourse, by the average length of the articles which limits the analyzes, not allowing the references from one article to another, and obliging the author to repeat the same explanations for the same terms, taking care however to respect the aim of capturing and entertaining the public.