L’envers du miroir: le verlan, une histoire d’ouf!

Drago Mateu, Paula

L’envers du miroir: le verlan, une histoire d’ouf!

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Drago Mateu, P. L’envers du miroir: le verlan, une histoire d’ouf!. 2013. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/22081

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Abstract

Verlan is a language game that has existed in France for a long time, but in the last 30 years has become widely-used, especially by the youth from banlieues. The main particularity of this slang is that reverse a standard French word in order to produce a new one that will act both as an encryption method and as an identity marker./nSo, as we will see in this research, this type of cryptic wordplay inverting the syllables of the words plays an important role in the French society life. It is mostly been through songs and films containing verlan, that learners have been introduced to the cultural concept of the French suburbs and their ethnical diverse residents./nFurthermore, as verlan is becoming more and more widespread, its original speakers try to create more exceptions not only to maintain this slang as an identity marker but also as a method for linguistic concealment./nNowadays, verlan is progressively coming to the common language, and most linguistics are wondering if this fact will really affect directly to the standard language, as we have already seen the introduction of some verlan vocabulary in the French dictionaries./nThe following research will explain how, when and why it is used this particular slang