2025/12/25 by Jan lazar, lazar, Jan, Radka Mudrochová +3
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #French Language Learning Methods #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
paper · doi:10.34616/ajmp.2025.25.23
openalex publication_date 2025/12/25 · openalex created_date 2025/12/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
This article focuses on the rivalry between the two languages that dominating international communication, namely English and French. Firstly, we want to describe the dominance of the French language on the world stage and its status as a borrowing language. Secondly, we want to study the resumption of power by English and its status as a lingua franca in international communication. The main objective of our text is to study to what extent the French language is able to resist the Anglophone predominance. Concretely, we want to analyze the English terms that are present in the FranceTerme database and have a French counterpart. We want to focus our attention in particular on the field of education, which is currently invaded by anglicisms (e.g. adaptive learning, blended learning, small private classes). Using the SkecthEngine and Aranea corpora, we intend to analyze the ability of French equivalents to substitute loan-words from English.