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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... Français in that same university. To these I wish to express grateful thanks. On this side of the water, I would like to express my particular gratitude to James Milroy, John Charles Smith and Glanville Price, who made many wise ...
... français ça, c'est de l'argot.' The most pervasive of the 'non-standard' varieties identified by the layperson is possibly working-class speech, commonly labelled le français populaire. Its vocabulary is closely associated with 4 FRENCH ...
... français régionaux (regional varieties of French). The latter are obviously distinguished from the langues régionales (Basque, Breton, Flemish, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan and Occitan) which are felt (rightly in some cases) to be ...
... français' ('the genius of the French people'). Since the French language had come (quite recently in most people's eyes) to symbolise French national identity, many came to the view that the rise of the French language signified the ...
... français en France'), but the way they do it makes it appear as though French is alone among the world's languages in having undergone such a process. Recent work on standardisation across a range of languages shows that while the ...