Les interférences linguistiques dans l’(auto)dérision du portrait d’un Parisien

This article analyses the traits of character and behaviour comprised by the portrait of the Parisian, as drown by a Parisian writer, Olivier Magny, in a book published in 2010: Dessine-moi un Parisien. Having as a starting point its author’s blog in English, entitled Stuff Parisians Like, this book is a humorous attempt at seizing the essence of the people born and raised in the French capital. As the leading thread through the 68 texts composing the book is a soulful irony, the aim of this article is to follow the mechanisms the writer resorted to in achieving it, with particular focus on the effect of using linguistic interferences