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The Role of Popular Culture in Language Borrowing Between French and English
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Broadwater, Marianne Elizabeth
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Year and Degree
2007, Master of Humanities (MHum), Wright State University, Humanities.
Abstract
This thesis proposes that popular culture often derives from the privileged upper classes and that popular culture established by the elite has played an important role in linguistic exchange throughout history between French and English. Focusing on the time periods 1066 AD to 1500 AD and the twentieth and twenty first centuries, it describes the manner of exchange and development of French and English lexicons and analyzes in detail the histories of one French word and one English word. Additionally, the examples given in this thesis illustrate the flow of popular culture from the high-ranking and powerful members of society to the common people.
Committee
Kirsten Halling (Advisor)
Pages
77 p.
Keywords
language
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French
;
English
;
popular culture
;
medieval
;
modern
;
influence
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Broadwater, M. E. (2007).
The Role of Popular Culture in Language Borrowing Between French and English
[Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1195238224
APA Style (7th edition)
Broadwater, Marianne.
The Role of Popular Culture in Language Borrowing Between French and English.
2007. Wright State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1195238224.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Broadwater, Marianne. "The Role of Popular Culture in Language Borrowing Between French and English." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1195238224
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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