Schedule 77. StuTS

Paris is not only the city of love, but also THE fashion capital par excellence. Elegance, sophistication and erotic seduction are just some of the characteristics attributed to French fashion. The whole world follows the dictates of the Paris fashion shows with great interest - and fashion magazines such as Vogue report on them. Using a corpus based on several issues from Vogue US between the 1920s and 1980s, this talk will look at how this dominance of French fashion is reflected in the English language. Are there modern borrowings? In which fields are these mainly to be found and why? Is it possible to acquire prestige and competence through language and how do these reflect contemporary trends? Are there noticeable diachronic changes? We will discuss these questions using an interdisciplinary approach at the interface between lexicology, etymology, corpus linguistics and cultural studies.

This talk is based on my "Zulassungsarbeit" (Gymnasiallehramt) and will be held in English - prior knowledge of French is not required.

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Day: 2025-05-15
Start time: 16:30
Duration: 00:30
Room: GWZ 4.116
Track: Sociolinguistics
Language: en

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