Sociolinguistic Variation In Contemporary French

Author : Kate Beeching,Nigel Armstrong,Françoise Gadet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218650

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Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French by Kate Beeching,Nigel Armstrong,Françoise Gadet Pdf

Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and Canada are considered, mainly with respect to phonological features but also focusing on syntactic and lexical evolutions (the relative clause in Ivorian French and discourse markers in Canadian French). The acquisition of stylistic features of French figures in chapters on both first and second language learners and variation across different genres is addressed with respect to non-standard non-finite forms. Finally, a section on semantic change traces the way that interactional and other socio-historical factors affect word meaning. The volume will appeal to (socio-)linguists with an interest in contemporary French as well as to advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students of French and specialists in the field.

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139453578

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Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France by Wendy Ayres-Bennett Pdf

This book provides a systematic study of sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a range of case studies, Wendy Ayres-Bennett makes available data about linguistic variation in this period, showing the wealth and variety of language usage at a time that is considered to be the most 'standardising' in the history of French. Variation is analysed in terms of the speaker's 'pre-verbal constitution' - such as gender, age and socio-economic status - or by the medium, register or genre used. As well as examining linguistic variation itself, the book also considers the fundamental methodological issues that are central to all socio-historical linguistic accounts and, more importantly, addresses the question of what the appropriate sources are for linguists taking a socio-historical approach. In each chapter, the case studies present a range of phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical issues, which pose different methodological questions for sociolinguists and historical linguists alike.

Author : Nigel Armstrong
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298287

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Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French by Nigel Armstrong Pdf

Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French. Sociolinguistic variation in the French of France has been rather little studied compared to these languages. This volume is the first examination and exploration of variation in French that studies in a unified way the levels of phonology, grammar and lexis using quantitative methods. One of its aims is to establish whether the patterns of variation that have been reported in French conform to those reported in other languages. A second important theme of this volume is the study of variation across speech styles in French, through a comparison with some of the best-known English results. The book is therefore also the first to examine current theories of social-stylistic variation by using fresh quantitative data. These data throw new light on the influence of methodology on results, on why certain linguistic variables have more stylistic value, and on how the strong normative tradition in France moulds interactions between social and stylistic variation.

Author : D. E. Ager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521397308

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Sociolinguistics and Contemporary French by D. E. Ager Pdf

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 : Sylvain Detey,Jacques Durand,Bernard Laks,Chantal Lyche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199573714

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Varieties of Spoken French by Sylvain Detey,Jacques Durand,Bernard Laks,Chantal Lyche Pdf

This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme 'Phonology of Contemporary French' (Phonologie du Francais Contemporain, PFC). Extensive data are drawn from all over the French-speaking world, including Algeria, Canada, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Switzerland. Although the principal focus is on differences in pronunciation, the authors also analyse the spoken language at all levels from sound to meaning. The book is accompanied by a website hosting audio-visual material for teaching purposes, data, and a variety of tools for working with corpora. The first part of the book outlines some key concepts and approaches to the description of spoken French. Chapters in Part II are devoted to the study of individual samples of spoken French from all over the world, covering phonological and grammatical features as well as lexical and cultural aspects. The book's companion website provides a class-friendly ready-to-use multimedia version of these 17 chapters, as well as the sound files and full transcription for each extract. Part III looks at inter and intra-speaker variation: it begins with chapters that provide the methodological background to the study of phonological variation using databases, while in the second section authors present case studies of a number of PFC survey points, including Paris, the Central African Republic, and Quebec. Varieties of Spoken French will be an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and students of all aspects of French language and linguistics.

Author : Randall Gess,Chantal Lyche,Trudel Meisenburg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273185

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Phonological Variation in French by Randall Gess,Chantal Lyche,Trudel Meisenburg Pdf

This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language use. Each chapter is based on original surveys conducted within the framework of the Phonology of Contemporary French project, described in the Introduction. These surveys constitute an invaluable source of new data for researchers, as many of the varieties included are otherwise undocumented in any systematic way. The chapters follow a similar format: presentation of the survey(s) and the sociolinguistic dimensions of the variety studied; description of the phonological inventory of the system(s), principal allophonic realizations, phonotactic constraints, behavior of schwa, behavior of liaison consonants, and other notable characteristics. The book opens with an informative introduction and closes with a chapter providing a synthesis of the major findings by continent.

Author : N. Armstrong,T. Pooley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230281714

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Social and Linguistic Change in European French by N. Armstrong,T. Pooley Pdf

An in depth examination of linguistic variation and change as a reflection of social convergence in the major French-speaking countries of Europe - France, Belgium and Switzerland. Considered in the context of linguistic levelling the book provides a detailed account of recent social and linguistic change in European French.

Author : David Hornsby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : French language
ISBN : 0853582351

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Sociolinguistic Variation and Change in France by David Hornsby Pdf

Author : M. H. Offord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : French language
ISBN : UCSC:32106009861540

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Varieties of Contemporary French by M. H. Offord Pdf

Author : Rodney Ball,Dawn Marley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317624912

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The French-Speaking World by Rodney Ball,Dawn Marley Pdf

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 : David Hornsby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351560955

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Language and Social Structure in Urban France by David Hornsby Pdf

The coming together of linguistics and sociology in the 1960's, most notably via the work of William Labov, marked a revolution in the study of language and provided a paradigm for the understanding of variation and change. Labovian quantitative methods have been employed successfully in North America, the UK, Scandinavia and New Zealand, but have had surprisingly little resonance in France, a country which poses many challenges to orthodox sociolinguistic thinking. Why, for example, does a nation with unexceptional scores on income distribution and social mobility show an exceptionally high degree of linguistic levelling, that is, the elimination of marked regional or local speech forms? And why does French appear to abound in 'hyperstyle' variables, which show greater variation on the stylistic than on the social dimension, in defiance of a well-established theory than such variables should not occur? This volume brings together leading variationist sociolinguists and sociologists from both sides of the Channel to ask: what makes France'exceptional'? In addressing this question, variationists have been forced to reassess the accepted interdisciplinary consensus, and to ask, as sociolinguistics has come of age, whether concepts and definitions have been transposed in a way which meaningfully preserves their original sense and, crucially, takes account of recent developments in sociology. Sociologists, for their part, have focused on the largely neglected area of language variation and its implications for social theory. Their findings therefore transcend the case study of a particularly enigmatic country to raise important theoretical questions for both disciplines.

Author : M. H. Offord
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853593435

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A reader in French sociolinguistics by M. H. Offord Pdf

This book brings together twenty-eight important extracts relating to French sociolinguistics. It is divided into four sections: the French language in France today, linguistic diversity in France, French outside France, and French and gender. The extracts have been drawn from a host of sources and have been selected to illustrate a wide range of attitudes and approaches to the role of French in France and elsewhere in the world. Government decrees and circulars, historical analyses, descriptions by contemporary sociolinguistics in Europe and further afield, and documents produced by organisations which exist to protect the French language all appear. The emphasis of the book is upon objective assessment, but also included are official statements and more stridently chauvinistic appraisals. Certain themes occur - particularly the perennial rivalry between English and French, as well as concern that French is losing its influence in many parts of the world and that it is escaping the authoritarian control that used to be exercised on it. A more recent concern is the charge that French is essentially a sexist language to which speakers need to be more and more sensitised.

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Janice Carruthers,Rosalind Temple
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317886518

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Problems and Perspectives by Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Janice Carruthers,Rosalind Temple Pdf

Problems and Perspectives- Studies in the Modern French Language looks at a number of interesting or problematic areas in the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of the French language and encourages the reader to think critically about different ways of approaching, describing and explaining these issues or data. The book is divided into two parts- the first section is a preliminary to, and contextualises, the discussion of the more specialised topics of the second part. Part two presents problematic and controversial areas in the description and analysis of the contemporary language. Where appropriate historical and sociolinguistic issues are also integrated into the discussion of modern French. Aimed primarily at advanced students and researchers in French linguistics, the introductory sections of part one also make this book accessible to undergraduates beginning their study of French linguistics, and to less specialised readers.

Author : Vera Regan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : French language
ISBN : 3039115693

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Language Practices and Identity Construction by Multilingual Speakers of French L2 by Vera Regan Pdf

This book presents six new studies on identity construction in the speech of older adolescents and young adults learning French. It takes a sociolinguistic approach to acquisition. First language sociolinguistic research has shown that identity construction is particularly intense during adolescence and young adulthood, and language use has been found to be an especially key resource in this dynamic construction. The contributors examine the language practices of L2, L3 and L4 speakers in multilingual and multicultural societies in Ireland, Canada, Belgium and France in order to demonstrate their use in identity construction. Several contexts of language acquisition for multilingual speakers are examined and compared, including formal and naturalistic settings for acquisition and learning. The book also investigates the speech of learners at upper-intermediate and advanced stages of acquisition of French to provide a holistic view of the way individuals use the language resources available to them to stake a claim to a new multilingual identity in their target language networks. The papers in this book combine qualitative and quantitative data on French speech and the context in which it occurs to provide detailed pictures of the co-construction of identity and complex speech patterns by multilingual speakers of French.

Author : Gunther De Vogelaer,Matthias Katerbow
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265289

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Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation by Gunther De Vogelaer,Matthias Katerbow Pdf

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical backgrounds. The book therefore includes contributions by both psycho- and sociolinguists, and by representatives of further relevant sub-disciplines of linguistics, including historical linguistics and dialectology. Second, in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison, the book brings together research carried out in different sociolinguistic constellations, as most obviously found in different language areas or different countries.