French: From Dialect to StandardRoutledge, 8 d’abr. 2013 - 296 pàgines Written as a text, this book looks at the external history of French from its Latin origins to the present day through some of the analytical frameworks developed by contemporary sociolinguistics. French is one of the most highly standardized of the world's languages and the author invites us to see the language as heterogenous, rather than a monolithic entity, using the model proposed by E. Haugen as a useful comparative grid to plot the development of standardization. After an introductory section which examines the dialectalization of Latin in Gaul, the four central chapters of the book are constructed around the basic processes invoved in standardization as identified by Haugen: the selection of norms, the elaboration of function, codification and acceptance. The concluding chapter deals with language variability and the wide gulf that has now developed between French used for formal purposes and that used in everyday speech, with particular reference to Occitan speaking regions. Emphasizing the ordinary speakers of the language, rather than the statesmen or great authors as agents of change, the book combines a traditional history of the language' approach with a sociolinguistic framework to provide a broad and comparative overview of the problem of language standardization. |
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... France, has lost much of its appeal: the history of the French language. The great discoveries made over the past century and a half by scholars exploring the historical links between French, Latin and the other Romance languages have ...
... language in the past with current theories about the nature of language in general. The present volume will then venture into the somewhat unfashionable field of 'the history of the French language', for its author is confident that ...
... France, and their mark is to be seen in many aspects of French culture, witnessed for instance in the profound respect felt for literary authors seen as creators of la belle langue and in the cultivation of the French language as a ...
... French language exists in its purest form in writing and that speaking usually involves a falling away from the ideal. There seems to be general agreement, among non-linguists at any rate, that the standard (written) language as a ...