Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh

Antibiotics in France and Italy: A Linguistic Analysis of Policies and Practices Compared to Danish Standards

This chapter is a comparative linguistic study that examines the annual European Antibiotic Awareness Day campaign material to prescribers and potential users in three different language societies: Denmark, France, and Italy. The study finds subtle yet distinct differences in terms of addressivity and formality: notably, the Danish campaign addresses their recipients directly and informs them informally. These observations may point to a more direct form of communication in Denmark, which could indicate a more egalitarian relationship. This relationship could be one of the reasons why Danes consume much less antibiotics and struggle much less with less antimicrobial resistance.

The reorganisation of the tense, aspect and mode paradigms of French

My previous studies of the replacement of the imperfect subjunctive by the present subjunctive conclude with the proposal of a reorganised paradigm in which the original temporal distinction between past and present is replaced by an aspectual distinction, i.e. by an opposition between the accomplished and the unaccomplished. This change is interpreted as a type of regrammation in which new grammatical content is ascribed to an existing grammatical expression. In the present article, I propose to study how this regrammation conforms to the reorganisations of the temporal and modal paradigms of Modern French by testing the changes of the TAM paradigms as an instance of connecting grammaticalisation.