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Evolution du francais au Quebec au cours des vingt dernieres annees (The Evolution of French in Quebec Over the Past Twenty Years)
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Darbelnet, Jean – Meta, 1975
This is a survey of the evolution of Quebec French over the last twenty years away from anglicizations and toward a modernization which has a tendency to lessen the gap between it and International French. Examples are given of recent "refrancizations"; and reasons for, and obstacles to, this phenomenon are discussed. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
Opacite et transparence du franco-canadien (The Opaque and the Transparent in Canadian French).
Darbelnet, Jean – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Presents examples of vocabulary items and expressions which can be found in Canada, particularly in Quebec, and which would be misunderstood, or not understood at all, by the average Frenchman. (AM)
Descriptors: English, French, Language Variation, Lexicology