French in the XX Century: Development Tendencies

• Main Authors: Taisiya I. Skorobogatova, Ekaterina A. Nazarova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sourthern Federal University 2017-06-01
• Series: Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki
• Subjects: history of the French language; the 20th century; argo poalu; Anglo-Americanisms; franglais; phoneme [ŋ] in the consonantial system of the French language; feminization of the names of professions; rectification of French orthography
• Online Access: http://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1019

This article is devoted to the disclosure of changes that occurred in the French language in the XX century. The task of the authors is to present the main features characteristic of the French language of the 20th century, taking into account external history and to give their perspective assessment. World wars, the development of communication tools and the creation of new technologies, the strengthening of cultural and economic ties between France and other countries of the world had a significant impact on the evolution of the French language. Important results of the development of the French language in the period under review include: fixing a new phoneme [ŋ] in the consonantial system of the French language; enrichment of the lexical system at the expense of internal resources and at the expense of other languages; strengthening the dynamics of the development of the non-literary part of the language; increase in the number of syntactic Anglicisms. In general, the authors of the article attempted to give a detailed answer to the question: if there was the impoverishment of the French language in the twentieth century.