Tables for the article "The integration of English loanwords into Quebec French press: evidence from corpus-based lexicometric, contextual and discourse analysis"

I hypothesised that English loanwords in Quebec French could be noticeable not because of their number, but because of their high frequency rate. In other words, it is possible that they are not so numerous, but some of them are often heard and read in repeated contexts, e.g., in utterances or discussions on particular topics. This assumption inevitably poses the question about the causes for an active usage of some English loanwords in francophone Quebec. To try to identify these causes, I for the first time approached the issue of the supposedly high frequency rate of English loanwords (by way of example of Quebec French print media) from the perspective of (1) the circumstances of loanword usage (context) and (2) the linguistic properties of specific loanword types. To verify my hypothesis, I meticulously observed the use of the idiomatic loanword "mur-à-mur" ("wall-to-wall") and morphological loanword "gagnant-gagnant" ("win-win") in 1,556 issues of the Quebec francophone newspaper "Le Devoir" ("The Duty") published between 2017 and 2020. The methods of lexicometric, contextual and discourse analysis revealed the types of contexts and topics welcoming the two loanwords the most as well as recurrent usage patterns characteristic of the studied loanword types. There were indeed two recurrent context types that most frequently encompassed two English loanwords in the journalistic discourse of "Le Devoir": “Opinions and Letters” and “Miscellaneous Topics.” In fact, the overall occurrences of the loanwords were distributed differently among all 13 of the considered context types. The applied multidimensional approach helped me to discover the recurrent usage patterns that are characteristic of the studied loanword types. For example, the idiomatic loanword "appliquer mur à mur" (to apply wall-to-wall) in the frequently repeated contexts of discussions on educational policies and the morphological item "gagnant-gagnant" that appeared to have the potential to be used in patterns ("accord gagnant-gagnant" (win-win agreement)). The data deposited here are Table 1 and Table 2. Table 1 presents the idiomatic loanword mur à mur (wall-to-wall) and morphological loanword gagnant-gagnant (win-win) with their tokens’ distribution by context types in the issues of the newspaper "Le Devoir" ("The Duty") published from 2017 to 2020. Table 2 features discourse, contextual, and grammatical features of the studied loanwords in the observed contexts. Since context type in print media was found to be an important factor in the integration of English loanwords, translation from English into Quebec French of the contexts belonging to the particular type may legitimize (or not) the use of the borrowed items within those contexts in the target text. In particular, materials on professional translation pedagogy related to the language pair in question would benefit from covering this crucial role of the context and could be compiled based on the obtained data.本研究提出假设：魁北克法语中的英语借词（English loanwords）之所以引人注目，并非源于其数量，而是因其高使用频率。换言之，此类借词或许总量不多，但其中部分在特定语境（如针对特定主题的发言或讨论）中频繁出现于大众视野。 这一假设不可避免地引出一个问题：魁北克法语区（francophone Quebec）为何会有部分英语借词被高频使用？ 为探明这些成因，本研究首次以魁北克法语印刷媒体为案例，从（1）借词使用语境以及（2）特定借词类型的语言属性两个维度，探讨了学界提出的英语借词高使用频率议题。 为验证上述假设，本研究对2017至2020年间出版的1556期魁北克法语报纸《义务报》（Le Devoir）中，惯用型借词"mur-à-mur"（"wall-to-wall"）与形态型借词"gagnant-gagnant"（"win-win"）的使用情况进行了细致观测。通过词汇计量分析、语境分析与话语分析方法，本研究明确了最常出现这两类借词的语境与主题类型，以及所研究借词类型的典型重复使用模式。 在《义务报》的新闻话语中，确实存在两类高频承载这两类英语借词的语境："意见与读者来信"与"综合话题"。事实上，借词的整体出现频次在全部13种预设语境类型中的分布并不均衡。本研究采用的多维度分析方法，还揭示了所研究借词类型的典型重复使用模式。例如，惯用型借词"appliquer mur à mur"（意为"wall-to-wall 应用"）常出现于教育政策讨论的高频语境中；而形态型借词"gagnant-gagnant"则可被用于"accord gagnant-gagnant"（"win-win agreement"，即"双赢协议"）这类固定搭配中。 本数据集包含表1与表2。表1展示了2017至2020年《义务报》各期中，惯用型借词"mur-à-mur"（"wall-to-wall"）与形态型借词"gagnant-gagnant"（"win-win"）的Token（Token）分布情况（按语境类型分类）。表2则呈现了所研究借词在观测语境中的话语、语境及语法特征。 由于印刷媒体中的语境类型被证实是影响英语借词融入的重要因素，将特定类型语境从英语译为魁北克法语的过程，可能会（或不会）使借词在目标文本中的使用获得合法性。具体而言，针对所研究语言对的专业翻译教学材料，若涵盖语境的这一关键作用将更具价值，且此类材料可基于本研究获取的数据进行编撰。