Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?

With the international financial crisis (2008), a series of primarily Anglo-Saxon terms began to be propelled to the forefront of the media. Journalists/commentors were thus forced to try to gloss and 'popularise' a highly specialised jargon that was incomprehensible for most of their audi...

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Main Author: Pascale Janot
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Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2020-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/11116
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description With the international financial crisis (2008), a series of primarily Anglo-Saxon terms began to be propelled to the forefront of the media. Journalists/commentors were thus forced to try to gloss and 'popularise' a highly specialised jargon that was incomprehensible for most of their audiences. Along the discursive chain of these 'words from elsewhere', which constituted the interface between the enunciator (journalist-divulgator) and the language of 'the Other' (the specialised economic terminology), a metalinguistic, evaluative commentary began to insinuate itself, e.g.: 'Hidden behind this barbaric term...', 'known by the barbaric term of...', 'this barbaric sigla designates...', etc. The present article examines the use of 'barbaric' as conferring a specific alterity to the terminology in question. It will do so by examining how terms defined or characterised in this way are specifically reformulated, and by analysing the discursive function of this characterisation.
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spelling doaj-art-8eed4e74639b4abcbb00b2422c0b5e6e2025-08-20T01:54:44ZengCercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICOCorela1638-573X2020-06-013110.4000/corela.11116Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?Pascale JanotWith the international financial crisis (2008), a series of primarily Anglo-Saxon terms began to be propelled to the forefront of the media. Journalists/commentors were thus forced to try to gloss and 'popularise' a highly specialised jargon that was incomprehensible for most of their audiences. Along the discursive chain of these 'words from elsewhere', which constituted the interface between the enunciator (journalist-divulgator) and the language of 'the Other' (the specialised economic terminology), a metalinguistic, evaluative commentary began to insinuate itself, e.g.: 'Hidden behind this barbaric term...', 'known by the barbaric term of...', 'this barbaric sigla designates...', etc. The present article examines the use of 'barbaric' as conferring a specific alterity to the terminology in question. It will do so by examining how terms defined or characterised in this way are specifically reformulated, and by analysing the discursive function of this characterisation.https://journals.openedition.org/corela/11116terminologyeconomic discoursejournalist-divulgatorbarbaricautonymy
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Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?
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title Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?
title_full Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?
title_fullStr Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?
title_full_unstemmed Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?
title_short Que cachent les « termes barbares » de la crise financière internationale ?
title_sort que cachent les termes barbares de la crise financiere internationale
topic terminology
economic discourse
journalist-divulgator
barbaric
autonymy
url https://journals.openedition.org/corela/11116
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