Écho des études romanes, 2025 (vol. 21), issue 1-2

PréfaceFrench

Preface

Radka MUDROCHOVÁ, Andrzej NAPIERALSKI Jr.

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):5-7 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.005  

Préface au dossier thématique.

PrésentationFrench

Presentation

Radka MUDROCHOVÁ, Andrzej NAPIERALSKI Jr.

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):9-11 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.006  

Présentation du dossier thématique.

Les verbes néologiques issus des emprunts à l’anglais : parcours d’adaptation en tchèque, français et lituanien à travers le champ lexical des nouveaux comportements et des nouvelles formes de communicationFrench

Neological verbs derived from English borrowings: adaptation processes in Czech, French, and Lithuanian through the lexical field of new behaviors and emerging forms of communication

Zuzana HILDENBRAND, Vitalija KAZLAUSKIENE, Radka MUDROCHOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):15-38 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.001  

This article investigates the adaptation of English-origin neological verbs in three structurally diverse languages: Czech, French, and Lithuanian. It focuses on verbs that emerge primarily in contexts of new social behaviors and digital communication. Drawing on corpus-based data, the study identifies key morphosyntactic and graphic adaptation strategies, such as suffixation, prefixation, and phonographic variation. It also considers sociolinguistic and stylistic aspects influencing the integration and dissemination of these verbs. Despite cross-linguistic differences, the findings reveal converging trends shaped by the interplay between linguistic...

Les verbes vidéoludiques empruntés à l’anglais : une analyse comparée multilingueFrench

Video game verbs borrowed from English: a comparative multilingual analysis

Alice RAY, Helena HOROVÁ, Andrzej NAPIERALSKI Jr., Mateusz PATALAN, Chiara PREITE

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):39-61 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.002  

This article offers a comparative analysis of English-derived gaming verbs and their integration into four languages: Polish, Czech, French, and Italian. Drawing on an oral corpus composed of YouTube videos, the study identifies some of the English verbs that are common to all four languages in gaming interactions and examines their morphological and syntactic adaptation in each language. Particular attention is devoted to verbal neology, focusing on how players appropriate and adapt Anglophone terms within their linguistic contexts. The analysis also explores the degree of semantic shift from the original English meanings, highlighting how these borrowed...

Les verbes néologiques dans l’espace numérique : étude comparative franco-italienneFrench

Neological verbs in the digital space: French-Italian comparative study

Filip KOLECKI

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):63-74 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.003  

The Internet, as a communicative space, plays an important role in shaping contemporary language fostering the intensification of word-formation processes and the adaptation of new lexical units. A particularly noteworthy phenomenon in this context is the emergence of verbal neologisms resulting from the assimilation of terms related to digital culture, social media, and communication practices characteristic of the online environment. Verbs such as googler/googlare, ghoster/ghostare or retweeter/retwittare are examples of linguistic hybrids, often borrowed from English and adapted to the inflectional system...

Rap et néologie verbale : étude contrastive de l’assimilation linguistique de l’anglais en polonais, tchèque et françaisFrench

Rap and verbal neology : a contrastive study of English linguistic assimilation in Polish, Czech, and French

Anne GENSANE, Andrzej NAPIERALSKI Jr., Alena NĚMCOVÁ POLICKÁ, Lena CZERWIŃSKA

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):75-93 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.004  

This study provides a contrastive analysis of English verb borrowings in a trilingual rap corpus (French, Polish, and Czech). Based on 300 texts selected from the most-streamed 2024 albums in France, Poland, and Czechia, the research highlights the morphological, phonetic, syntactic, and semantic processes involved in the adaptation of English verbs. The findings reveal language-specific assimilation strategies that reflect patterns of linguistic hybridization influenced by the global impact of anglophone hip-hop culture.

Les verbes néologiques de type futuristeFrench

Futuristic neological verbs

Silvia Domenica ZOLLO

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):97-115 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.007  

This article analyzes futuristic neological verbs coined by Anne-Caroline Paucot, a French futurist writer who, since 2013, has explored possible futures in order to inform present-day actions. After introducing the author and outlining the linguistic and extralinguistic principles underlying Paucot’s lexical creativity, the study presents the NéoDem1 corpus and details the theoretical frameworks used to model lexicogenic matrices and the functioning of the collected neological verbs. It then examines the morphological, semantic, and thematic structures of the linguistic and extralinguistic paradigms to which Paucot’s futuristic...

Les verbes néologiques en galicien : vers une prototypicalité syntaxique renouveléeFrench

Neological verbs in Galician: toward a renewed syntactic prototypicality

Alexandre Rodríguez GUERRA

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):117-139 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.008  

This paper examines neological verbs in the Galician language. The syntactic analysis (based on a functionalist methodology) of a corpus with 218 examples from the period 2020-2022 (comprising 147 different verbs) from the Observatory of Neology at the University of Vigo is undertaken, and a formal, chronological, and thematic study is also carried out, contrasting, when possible, the results of these Galician neological verbs with those from other languages. Most of them are formed by prefixation and suffixation, while borrowings are relatively rare. The majority are attested only once and are concentrated in the thematic fields of culture, society,...

Rap et néologie verbale : exploration des procédés lexicogéniques dans un corpus français contemporainFrench

Rap and verbal neology: exploring lexicogenic processes in a contemporary French corpus

Andrzej NAPIERALSKI Jr., Anne GENSANE

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):141-157 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.009  

This article analyzes the processes of neological verb formation in French rap based on a carefully constructed corpus. It highlights the strategies of derivation, conversion, back-formation, and truncation, distinguishing between the internal and external matrices used by rappers to create new terms. Finally, the article highlights the diffusion of neologisms, distinguishing between media-driven neology and identity-based neology, and emphasizes the role of rap as a vehicle for linguistic diffusion among younger generations.

Quand les anthroponymes politiques façonnent les verbes : les néologismes en  -iser / -izovat / -(iz)ować en français, en tchèque et en polonaisFrench

When political anthroponyms shape verbs: neologisms in -iser/-izovat/-(iz)ować in French, Czech, and Polish

Radka MUDROCHOVÁ, Paulina MAZURKIEWICZ

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):159-180 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.010  

This article examines neological verb formation derived from political proper names in French, Czech, and Polish. Using the productive suffixes -iser (Fr.), -izovat (Cz.), and -(iz)ować (Pl.), it explores how anthroponyms evolve into verbs carrying ideological, stereotypical, or critical meanings. Based on media and lexical corpora, the study analyzes morphological patterns, semantic specificities, and discursive usage. Special focus is given to the expressive value, contextual anchoring, and critical function of these verbs in political discourse. Through a comparative approach, the article highlights derivational...

La corporéité troublante dans le théâtre contemporainFrench

The disturbing physicality in the contemporary theatre

Nikol MARTINKOVÁ BURIANOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):183-193 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.011  

Contemporary theatre is frequently based on the refusal of the mimetic restitution of man. The defeated man, the disappearing body, allows the speech to be incarnated on stage in its full depth. In addition, this duality of the speaking and spoken body finds its culmination in the form of the puppet or effigy, which leaves the spectator in hesitation between the mechanical and the living. The puppet clearly changes the traditional view of itself. In contemporary theatre, the performer’s body is more often seen as its equal partner. Moreover, it is not the puppet that imitates an actor in his movements, but it is the actor that legitimizes...

Mariateresa Di Lascia: la figura della madre e del corpo femminile nel romanzo Passaggio in ombraItalian

Mariateresa Di Lascia: the maternal figure and the female body in the novel Passaggio in ombra

Miroslava FERRAROVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):195-203 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.012  

The article deals with two important and ever-present themes of Mariateresa Di Lascia's novel Passaggio in ombra (Passage in the Shadow). The themes are those of the maternal figure and the female body. The maternal figure is mainly that of the protagonist's mother, but other mothers are also presented in the novel, those of within the village community, grandmothers, perfect mothers and those who behaved badly by abandoning their children. In the second part of the novel, however, there is the absence of motherhood in the protagonist and the decline of her life in solitude. This decline is also accompanied by the description of the body,...

Catherine Camugli Gallardo, Lire les textes anciens italiens. Éléments de morpho-syntaxe diachroniqueItalian

Fabio RIPAMONTI

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):205-208 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.013  

Review of the monograph by Catherine Camugli Gallardo, Lire les textes anciens italiens. Éléments de morpho-syntaxe diachronique (Peter Lang, Bruxelles, 2022).

Prof. Jean Bérenger (1934–2024)French

Václav BŮŽEK, Jitka RADIMSKÁ

Écho des études romanes 2025, 21(1-2):209-211 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2025.014  

In memory of the professor Jean Bérenger (1934–2024).