Open AccessJean Nicolas De Surmont. Chanson: son histoire et sa famille dans les dictionnaires de langue française
Author(s) -
François Jaques
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
lexikos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2224-0039
pISSN - 1684-4904
DOI - 10.5788/20-0-170
Subject(s) - prestige , humanities , art , lexicography , literary genre , old french , french literature , vocabulary , literature , philosophy , linguistics
The fundamental aim of the study of the chansonnier vocabulary in French is to highlight the existence of a literary genre, namely the chanson. The author states that the chanson genre, as referred to in the Middle Ages, is characteristically French in view of the prestige of the French language and culture over centuries and the study thus comprises an analysis of the term chanson and its lexical family from its origins in old French to today's modern French