Using certain words of unknown origin

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyse certain words that come and go at different times, in different contexts, and that are sometimes used by speakers ignoring their origin. Individuals who need to learn a foreign language must undoubtedly go through the domain of words and bear in mind that many of them are incorporated or abandoned by the permanent evolution of language, according to the needs of society. Furthermore, languages present unexpected lexical encounters (Galisson, 1983), which are tose special phrases that people must identify and understand in order to communicate with other people. Experts consider that lexicon is accessed through the knowledge of the particular vocabularies that are a reality of discourse. Each term has its own meaning according to the region where it is used. Many times, some do not refer to the same thing, but rather to very different realities, according to the customs of each place. Galisson (1995) affirms that lexiculture is “the culture mobilized and updated in and by the words of all discourses whose purpose is not the study of culture itself”. In order to analyse the use and origin of some of them, ten expressions of French and Spanish origin taken from everyday life have been selected.