After a brief discussion of the Latin roots of the polysemy of the words reconnaissance and reconnaître, the article will trace the shifting hierarchy between their different meanings from the Middle Ages to the main contemporary dictionaries, especially focusing on the waxing and waning of ‘reconnaissance’ as “gratitude”.
Semantic Hierarchies of the French term “Reconnaissance"
Picardi Roberta
2021-01-01
Abstract
After a brief discussion of the Latin roots of the polysemy of the words reconnaissance and reconnaître, the article will trace the shifting hierarchy between their different meanings from the Middle Ages to the main contemporary dictionaries, especially focusing on the waxing and waning of ‘reconnaissance’ as “gratitude”.File in questo prodotto:
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