Mon lapin, ma biche or loulou? The Frequency of Use of Love Nicknames for Women and Men in French in France and in Québécois French
Abstrakt
The objective of this article is to analyze the use of love nicknames for women and men in the French-speaking context, especially in France and Quebec. From the lexicographic devices and resources of the Web, we have developed a corpus of words which we have analyzed in more detail with the tools of corpus linguistics, namely on the platform Néoveille and in the corpora Araneum allowing to measure the frequencies of employment in the two distinct contexts, French (from France) and Québécois French.
This article has a threefold purpose. First, we will try to characterize and classify the affectionate nicknames.
Second, we will present all of the words collected for our analysis and we will comment on them according to the processes of their formation or their belonging to a specified domain. Finally, we will verify the frequency of use of a sample of words chosen from the linguistic corpus mentioned above and we will notably compare the two contexts of our research to be able to decide on their similarities or differences.