Richard Scholar
Emigres: French Words That Turned English
Emigres: French Words That Turned English
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English has borrowed more words from French than any other modern foreign language, lending it a je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise elude it. Richard Scholar examines the continuing history of untranslated French words in English, revealing the fertile but fraught relationship between England and France. Émigrés demonstrates that French borrowings have "turned" English in more ways than one, offering more than just seasoning and establishing themselves as "creolizing keywords" that connect English speakers to and separate them from French.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 14 June 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language, lending it a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise elude the language. Richard Scholar examines the continuing history of untranslated French words in English and asks what these words reveal about the fertile but fraught relationship that England and France have long shared and that now entangles English- and French-speaking cultures all over the world.
Émigrés demonstrates that French borrowings have, over the centuries, "turned" English in more ways than one. From the seventeenth-century polymath John Evelyns complaint that English lacks "words that do so fully express" the French ennui and naïveté, to George W. Bushs purported claim that "the French dont have a word for entrepreneur," this unique history of English argues that French words have offered more than the mere seasoning of the occasional mot juste. They have established themselves as "creolizing keywords" that both connect English speakers to—and separate them from—French. Moving from the realms of opera to ice cream, the book shows how migrant French words are never the same again for having ventured abroad, and how they complete English by reminding us that it is fundamentally incomplete.
At a moment of resurgent nationalism in the English-speaking world, Émigrés invites native Anglophone readers to consider how much we owe the French language and why so many of us remain ambivalent about the migrants in our midst.
Weight: 368g
Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780691234007
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