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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R. Anthony Lodge. FIGURES. 1 A layperson's view of varieties of French 7 2 Language and dialect 3 4 5 The 'two-norm theory' Diglossia in sixteenth-century France A view of social stratification in seventeenth-century France 6a, 6b The ...
R. Anthony Lodge. 1. VARIATION,. CHANGE. AND. STANDARDS. This book treats a subject which, outside 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 ...
... language (the developing relationship between French and the population which uses it) – though the uncovering of a close relationship between language variation and language change has meant that the distinction between the linguistic ...
... language for every separate 'nation' (see Deutsch 1968). This nexus of ideas was not present in premodern Europe, nor is it axiomatic in many non-European ... variation and hostility to language change run 3 VARIATION, CHANGE AND STANDARDS.
R. Anthony Lodge. speak. Intolerance of variation and hostility to language change run particularly deep in certain quarters and, paradoxically, it is probably because of this that the difference between the 'correct' and colloquial ...