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From its initial appearance in 1694 and through successive editions in 1718, 1740, and 1762, the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française had risen to become the definitive arbiter of the French language. Preparation of the fifth edition was at an advanced state when the French Revolution began in 1789 but it remained unfinished when the National Convention suppressed academies in August 1793. Seeking to codify the language of the Revolution, the Convention commissioned two Parisian publishers to complete the fifth edition, hoping that it would be a vehicle for promoting the ideals of the Revolution in the manner that the earlier editions had for the values of absolute monarchy. When it appeared during the year VI (1798), however, it was completely anachronistic and barely took note of the Revolution except for a brief supplement of “words in use since the Revolution” that comprised only a small fraction of its content. Another Parisian publisher believed its deficiencies offered an opportunity to publish a competing edition, which he did, along with a partner, in 1802. The holders of the rights to the fifth edition took them to court for piracy, initiating protracted legislation in which they ultimately prevailed. Preparation of the sixth edition had been entrusted to the Institut National and the Napoleonic regime was eager to see it completed, but Bonaparte fell before that occurred. The restored Bourbon dynasty was also eager to see the new edition completed but it was overthrown in 1830. The sixth edition appeared only in 1835 and, similar to the fifth edition it supplanted, it glossed over the Revolution—as well as the Napoleonic period—but in a different manner. Although the dictionary included definitions from the revolutionary and Napoleonic era, it frequently elided the period through the phrase “at a certain epoch.”
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The French Connection: William Brown Hodgson's Mission in Algiers and the Dictionnaire de la langue franque
Operstein focuses on the mission of William Brown Hodgson in Algiers and the Dictionnaire de la langue franque. The timeframe for Hodgson's work on this language, as can be determined from his reports to Clay, was between 12 April 1826, the date of his arrival in Algiers, and 2 May 1827, the date on which the written product of his work on Lingua Franca is described in terms that establish a direct link with the Dictionnaire. By linking the Dictionnaire's publication with the activities of the American consulate in Algiers shortly before the French invasion of Algeria, it opens unexpected new avenues for historical research on US-France relations. By revealing the connection between Hodgson and the Dictionnaire, it also puts some meat on the bones of the hypothesis of Hodgson's biographer \"that Hodgson was in the pay of some foreign government.\"
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La fraise : histoire d'un accessoire et de sa terminologie
Between specialised and general language, the domain of fashion is of great interest for the study of terminology: a terminology that, following the trends of an era, evolves over time and space. In this context, this study focuses on a fashion accessory of ancient origin and on its terminology: the ruff. Very fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, after having symbolised the austerity and rigour of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, the ruff became a symbol of elegance and power. Nowadays, some fashion companies have reintroduced this accessory whose value has changed: contemporary ruffs are extravagant accessories for their shapes and sizes, that inevitably evoke the 16th and 17th century. The study of ruffs requires heterogeneous sources, such as manuals of fashion history, technical documents and lexicographic resources. Moreover, iconographic sources - paintings, sculptures, sketches - are to be collected and analysed, since they clarify similitudes and differences between different types of ruffs. After having described the most important sources for this study, the history of ruff is presented into details, in order to describe its different models. Then, a terminological analysis is conducted: the French terminology of this accessory is presented, with a focus on the difference between the terms fraise, collerette and gorgerette. The French terminology is compared to the Italian one and a French-Italian glossary is prepared in order to answer to the needs of experts of communication, translator and people working in the fashion field.
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Le traitement du sens et la phraséologie collocationnelle dans le Dictionnaire françois de Pierre Richelet (1680)
The present study examines the role of phraseology, especially collocational phraseology, in the semantic organization of the lexicon of the Dictionnaire françois by Pierre Richelet (1680). The aim of this study is to demonstrate that there is a direct relationship between the collocational information, located at end of each lexicographical article, and the material presentation of the definitional field. The latter is ensured through the implementation of the usage definition alongside the semantic definition. This work is studied within the field of historical metaphraseography based on the theoretical and descriptive principles of historical metalexicography.
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Interacción Entre Gramática, Didáctica y Lexicografía
This collection of texts deals with lexicographical and grammatical issues of Spanish from a contrastive and didactic perspective.It aims at identifying the phenomena which are most interesting for compiling contrastive grammars and dictionaries for the Spanish language by focussing on the latest developments in the field of foreign language.
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Et si le dictionnaire historique était au service de la didactique du lexique : étude de cas du Dictionnaire Historique de la langue française
Le dictionnaire représente, pour de nombreux didacticiens, un support pédagogique indispensable à la didactique des langues, notamment pour la didactique de la compétence lexicale. La didactique du lexique de la langue française ne fait pas exception. Les dictionnaires français de langue générale jouent un rôle véritablement important dans la didactique du lexique de la langue française, comme langue première, seconde ou étrangère. La publication de la première édition du Dictionnaire Historique de la langue française en 1992 représente une valeur ajoutée par rapport à la lexicographie de la langue française, et donc par rapport à la didactique du lexique français. L'article présente les résultats d'une étude analytique de la valeur ajoutée que pourrait apporter le Dictionnaire Historique de la langue française à la didactique du lexique français sur les plans morphosémantique et syntaxique.
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Your eigning hert: A Hapax Legomenon in Cursor Mundi, Line 28339
The Middle English word eigning appears in a single line, in a single extant manuscript. After 125 years, it remains the sole undefined word from the glossary accompanying the published text of the Cursor Mundi. This paper provides an Anglo-Norman etymology for the word, one which makes a surprising connexion with secular romances, the very genre that the Cursor-poet and other penitential writers seek to condemn.
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Three Verbs in a Boat: Conflation in Anglo-Norman Lexis and Lexicography
The cluster of medieval French and Anglo-Norman verbs
vaguer
,
vagrer
, and
waucrer
, all with a tie to sea-faring, are disambiguated semantically and discrete etymologies are identified. Literary passage where they figure, including a key scene in the
Tristan
romance, are reinterpreted in the light of these findings.
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Michael Toxites y los vocabularios plurilingües de Onomastica (1574)
Este artículo analiza los vocabularios contenidos en Onomastica (1574) de Michael Toxites (seudónimo de Michael Schütz), una obra no estudiada aún en el ámbito hispánico. Semejante a obras posteriores de sistematización terminológica, como las de Caspar Bauhin o Christian Mentzel para el ámbito botánico, Onomastica recopila voces de sustancias minerales y vegetales usadas en la realización de compuestos alquímicos durante el Renacimiento. Dividida en dos partes, una primera temática y una segunda alfabética, la obra recoge voces comunes y técnicas en varias lenguas (latín, hebreo, árabe, alemán, francés, español, italiano e inglés). Este estudio realiza una aproximación global al autor y la obra, describe la estructura de los dos repertorios que la componen, analiza algunos de los términos que incluye debido a su temprana datación y, por último, establece su relación con otras obras paracelsísticas similares de su época.
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