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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... 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 influenced the way the history of the French language has hitherto ...
... literary manifestations), implying that other varieties of French (e.g. colloquial, popular and regional forms) are of little interest. Of course, the freedom of linguistic historians to explore spoken forms of the language in past ...
... literary history of the people of France. Each was felt to be inextricably bound up with the other, and both were conceived of as fundamentally unique. This essentially Romantic vision of history seems to have set the agenda and laid ...
... literary and occasionally to linguistic events. The year 842 is the date of the swearing of the 'Strasbourg Oaths'. If the transcription of them in a manuscript dated 1000 is reliable (and we have no very strong reasons to doubt it) ...
... Literary heritage H possesses one, L does not. (4) Acquisition H has to be explicitly taught. L is learnt at mother's knee. (5) Standardisation His codified, uniform (grammars, etc.). L is marked by dialectal fragmentation/variation. (6) ...