Comment Tu Tchatches

Synopsis of Comment Tu Tchatches

«Comment tu tchatches !» is the dictionary of contemporary urban French by Jean-Pierre Goudaillier (Maisonneuve & Larose, paperback, 263 pages).

Compiles around 900 entries of French spoken in French cités since the 1980s, with influences from popular French, traditional slang, Maghrebi Arabic, Berber, African and Asian languages, Romani, and Antillean creoles. It analyzes the lexical formation processes of this urban and interethnic variety.

Second expanded edition, with a preface by Claude Hagège, bibliographic references (pp. 263-264), and publication date of September 24, 1998.

Reference work for students of French, linguists, and readers interested in urban slang and the sociolinguistics of the peripheries.