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Author : Dawn Marley,Marie-Anne Hintze,Gabrielle Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : French language
ISBN : UOM:39015042788193
Author : Rodney Ball,Dawn Marley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317624899
The French-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the French language and its role in the world. This new edition has been fully revised to reflect the many political and social changes of the last 15 years, including the impact of technology on language change. It continues to combine text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems. Key features of this book: Informative and comprehensive: covers a wide range of current issues Practical: contains a variety of graded exercises and tasks plus an index of terms Topical and contemporary: deals with current situations and provides up-to-date illustrative material Thought-provoking: encourages students to reflect and research for themselves The French-Speaking World is the ideal textbook for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of French but who have little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics.
Author : Rodney Ball,Dawn Marley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134792788
This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the French language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of French but who has little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics. It combines text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems. In Part One Rodney Ball looks at the diversity of the French-speaking world and the function of French in particular countries and regions, including Switzerland, Belgium and Canada. He explores its status in relation to other languages and its role in intercommunity relations. In Part Two the focus shifts to individual language features and among topics explored are regional speech forms, the differences between written and spoken French, the `social meaning' of different styles and levels of language, and French used by immigrants. Part Three looks at recent developments in the French language particularly in France itself. Key features of this book: * Informative and comprehensive: covers a wide range of current issues * Practical: contains a variety of graded exercises and tasks plus an index of terms * Topical and contemporary: deals with current situations and provides up-to-date illustrative material * Thought-provoking: encourages students to reflect and research for themselves Rodney Ball is a lecturer in French in the School of Modern Languages, Southampton University. He teaches General Linguistics and French Sociolinguistics, on which he has published a number of articles, and is involved in designing practical courses.
Author : Leigh Oakes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588111164
This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their important differences (e.g. France subscribes in principle to a civic model of national identity, whereas the basis of Swedish identity is undeniably ethnic). It is precisely differences such as these which allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the ethnolinguistic implications of some of the major challenges currently facing France, Sweden and other European countries: regionalism, immigration, European integration and globalization.The present volume benefits from the use of a multidisciplinary approach, and differs from others on the market because of the variety of methods of inquiry used. A series of societal analyses is complemented by an empirical component, bringing a more grounded understanding to the issue of language and national identity.
Author : Michelle A. Harrison,Aurélie Joubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319959399
This edited volume presents an analysis of the evolution of French language policies and their impact on French regional languages and their communities. It gathers studies on language revitalisation from several territorial minority languages (Breton, Alsatian, Catalan, Occitan, Basque, Corsican, Francoprovençal, Picard, Reunionese) and evaluates the challenges and opportunities that they face in the 21st century. The chapters tackle different aspects of language endangerment and language planning and adopt varied theoretical and methodological approaches. The first section of the book reconsiders the difficulties in establishing linguistic boundaries and classification for some regional languages. The second section examines the important theme of the new generation of speakers with issues of transmission and identity formation and the changes they can bring to traditional communities. The third section highlights new developments in the context of new technologies and the heightened visibility of regional languages. Finally, the last section presents an overview of the contemporary situation of minority language revitalisation in France and synthesises the key trends identified in this volume: from the educational domain to the European Charter for Minority and Regional languages. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, language policy, minority languages and language endangerment.
Author : Kamal Salhi
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112394775
This book examines policy planning and implementation and language variation in the realm of intercultural communication in France, Europe, the Americas, Australia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to discern trends in the development of the capacity of Francophone speakers to engage in dialogue across linguistic boundaries. Each study in the volume seeks to evaluate and analyse the antagonistic situations that have resulted from colonial culture and the post-independence hegemonic cultures. These situations are investigated through their expression in the French language and the languages with which it coexists in the countries considered here. The expertise of linguists and language specialists in this volume provides formalist and structural insights and an innovative phenomenology of language and newly available quantitative and qualitative studies of synchronic language. These methodologies are applied to a wide range of subject areas: law, history, literature, politics and society. Taken as a whole the book offers a fresh perspective on the issues surrounding French within and beyond France in the post-colonial and Francophone contexts.
Author : D. E. Ager
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853594423
This text is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover what drove and drives the French to concentrate so much on language, on what it is that characterises their approach, and on the explanations for the policies governments have pursued in the past and present.
Author : Dennis Ernest Ager
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847140937
Examines the making of language policy, and language policy itself, in Britain and France, looking at how disciplines such as sociolinguistics and the analysis of the political process help in studying language policy and policymaking. Details stages, methods, and outcomes of the policymaking process, and compares policies in the two countries, with case studies on areas including the Welsh Language Act of 1993 and language policy for immigrants.
Author : A. Judge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230286177
It was traditionally assumed that a single official language was necessary for the wellbeing of the state, particularly in France and Britain. This assumption is now questioned, and regional languages are making, in some cases, an impressive comeback. This book analyses a range of languages' development, decline and efforts at regeneration.
Author : A. Amit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137300164
During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local identities. This book offers a detailed historical sociolinguistic analysis of the various language policies applied in France's regions (Brittany, Southern France, Corsica and Alsace) before, during and after WWII.
Author : Selma K. Sonntag
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739157282
The status of English as a global language is deeply divisive and hotly contested. The Local Politics of Global English analyzes linguistic globalization in five countries that differ greatly in both their degree of global integration and their use of English. By drawing on the work of language scholars and the growing field of globalization studies, the author provides a revealing portrait of how politicians, activists, scholars and policy-makers in the United States, France, India, South Africa, and Nepal are debating the questions that plague local controversies over global English. Concepts of hegemony and resistance, elites and subalterns, and liberalization and democratization are incorporated into case studies that provide insight into the politics of linguistic globalization from above and from below. Of interest to students of politics and culture, as well as teachers and learners of language, The Local Politics of Global English is a detailed examination of a timely and controversial topic.
Author : D. E. Ager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-12-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521397308
This book deals with the ways in which French is used in different circumstances and settings in France and abroad, with the language attitudes of French speakers and with language policy. It is concerned to examine not only the linguistic data, but also the social, political and economic environment in which contemporary French is used. At the same time it offers an introduction to contemporary sociolinguistic theory, methods and results. After a brief historical introduction and a review of approaches to regionalism, Professor Ager looks at such questions as the conflicts between standard French and regional languages such as Breton, the changing role of French in the world; the distinctiveness of social and professional varieties such as the language of the working class, scientists or immigrants and language variation correlating with interactional factors such as formality or medium. A final chapter deals with language attitude, language policy and language planning. This volume sets language information in its social context and shows how to investigate and evaluate both language variation and the social and political reaction to it.
Author : Mari C. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107099227
A collaborative work written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and members of indigenous communities acting on the frontline of language support and maintenance, this volume offers a unique perspective on how the development and implementation of language policy and planning impact on endangered languages.
Author : Robin Adamson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781853599491
This book aims to find out whether French, one of the great languages of the world, is in crisis or not. It traces the history and development of language defence in France and examines the sometimes contradictory attitudes of French people to their beloved language. It assesses the necessity for and the usefulness of the many activities in defence of French and suggests what its future might be.
Author : Leigh Oakes,Yael Peled
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107143166
This book proposes an integrated framework for investigating the ethics of language policy in liberal democracies in a global era.
