1 Summary The thesis entitled Diminutives and Augmentatives in Contemporary Romanian Language and their Stylistic Use is focused on determining a classification which could describe every stylistic function of expressive words. The method I chose was to analyze three stylistic areas, create lists of expressive words with context and evaluate the results. From the beginning, it was evident that there were many connections between diminutives, augmentatives on one part and pejoratives on the other. That is a reason why I extended this thesis to cover also pejorative words. Firstly, I would like to describe the structure of this study. I decided to divide it into two parts. The first one is theoretical (1.0), and its aim is to synthesize information about suffix derivation and about diminutives, augmentatives and pejoratives in the Romanian language. In different linguistic studies, we find different classifications of observed suffixes and also their different quantities. Having reviewed these linguistic studies, I chose one which I found the best organized and, based on my own analysis, I also added some observations regarding the theory (2.4.5). Basically, there are two more suffixes which should be classified as diminutive (-ež, -uşă) and two as augmentative (-ime, - andru). Next theoretical topic to...

Dans la thèse sont étudiées les particularités lexico-sémantiques et les fonctions stylistiques de l'argot utilisé dans le théâtre et le cinéma français contemporains, les transformations que subit l'argot dans les adaptations des récits littéraires au cinéma. Principalement stylistique, la thèse s'inscrit également dans les problématiques de la sociologie. / The thesis is about lexico-semantic properties and stylistic functions of slang used in contemporary French theatre and cinema, its transformations in movies adapted from literature. The research is focused mainly on stylistic aspects, but also refers to sociolinguistics.