Published : 2025-08-05

Interspecies Tenderness in the Face of Death, or How Deceased Companion Animals are Called by Their Owners

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The increasing role of the relationship between humans and companion animals and the general mediatisation and democratisation trends in public discourse have led to the emergence of new digital forms of expression of mourning after the death of an animal companion, including commemorative portals providing the opportunity to publish tributes (French: hommage) to the deceased animal. The aim of this article is to characterise the linguistic means used to express tenderness towards pets in French online commemorative discourse. The study is qualitative-quantitative in nature and involves the analysis of morphological and semantic features of 1,714 affectonymes excerpted from 1,468 texts commemorating deceased animals, published in the section “Amonami” of the portal 30millionsdamis.fr The results of the study indicate the use of a variety of formal means to increase the expressive character of the analysed forms, such as affixation, apocope and apheresis. The analysis also distinguished 17 semantic fields to which the collected affectonymes belong.

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affectonymes, tenderness, commemorative discourse, mourning



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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