Cultural Mutual Learning and National Identity:A Study of German-French Lexical Exchange
Language is not only the mirror of social development and the carrier of culture,but also the essential basis of collective identity building.A diachronic and synchronic comparison reveals the critical role that extralinguistic(political,economic,cultural,etc.)factors played in the formation and consolidation of the German-French lexical exchange pattern with a surplus of French foreign words since Middle Ages.French foreign words are usually borrowed into German in a top-down way,while German foreign words are mainly borrowed into French in a bottom-up way,which leads to various differences between French and German foreigh words in terms of semantic scope,colour meaning and integration degree,etc.The connection between linguistic purism movements and the modern discourse practice of nationalism not only proves the decisive effect of extralinguistic factors and the identity-building function of language,but also provides reference for the contemporary era.
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