From “aide-mémoire” to “c'est la vie” English abounds with lexical borrowings from French. However, over the years anglicisms and Americanisms have become part of French vocabulary with the term Franglais being used to talk about lexical borrowing from French in English and from English in French(Thody,1995,p.1). This essay will examine the latter, looking at what types of English loanwords have been integrated into French lexicon and analysing how they have been “frenchified” and the use of Franglais
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This chapter overviews the theoretical part of the study. This part reviews the literature of pragmatics, communicative competence, and syntactic knowledge. It also provides empirical research about syntactic knowledge and how it relates to the current research The increasing significance of intercultural communications has pushed the researchers to focus on the pragmatic mechanisms to explore effective communication. A huge attention has been recently dedicated to cross-cultural pragmatics and intercultural