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Le dérèglement du système de pensée français : l'angoisse secrète des puristes? Réponse à Henriette Walter French: an accommodating language?
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 1999)
The emotional force of swearwords and taboo words in the speech of multilinguals
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2004)
This paper investigates the perception of emotional force of swearwords and taboo words (S-T words) among 1039 multilinguals. It is based on data drawn from a large database collected through a web questionnaire on ...
Is it the corruption of French thought processes that purists fear? A Response to Henriette Walter
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 1999)
The arguments put forward by purists in defence of the French language are based on the idea of the genius of French and of French clarity. Meschonnic (1997) notes that these concepts are akin to myths and originate from ...
Predicting language learners' grades in the L1, L2, L3 and L4: the effect of some psychological and sociocognitive variables
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2007)
This study of 89 Flemish high-school students' grades for L1 (Dutch), L2 French), L3 (English) and L4 (German) investigates the effects of three higher-level ersonality dimensions (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), ...