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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... Cultural boundaries within France 11 The principal towns of medieval France 12 Distribution of the -s/-z spelling variables 13 Expansion of the power of the French kings 14 Spread of the Parisian writing system 15 French-speaking ...
... culture, most obviously in the way Europeans subconsciously view language and its role in society: it has come to be widely accepted, for instance, that the ideal state of a language is one of homogeneity and uniformity (rather than ...
... 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 central part of the 'national patrimony'. They have also greatly ...
... culture of the peasantry, and subject as they are to infinite variability. Intermediary between the patois and the langue française come regional accents; these involve deviations in pronunciation from the Parisian norm and are commonly ...
... culture and France's position in the world, strenuous official efforts have been and are still being deployed to maintain the use of French as an international language, and to combat the effects of outside (usually lexical) influences ...