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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... standard language: linguistic prescriptivism (a readiness to condemn non-standard uses of the language) and linguistic purism (a desire to protect the traditional standard from 'contaminations' from any source, be they foreign loanwords ...
... standard (written) language as a linguistic system is inherently 'better ... standard French language is extremely pervasive. In many societies in the modern ... non-standard' varieties identified by the layperson is possibly working ...
... non-standard speech in France as in Britain are not always unfavourable. Nonstandard varieties can be viewed with affection, inducing a sense of security and homeliness. For instance, positive feelings towards one's own local speech ...
... non-standard languages and dialects were until quite recently persecuted with great ruthlessness. The overwhelming dominance of the standard language which has resulted in France (see Grillo 1989) contrasts quite starkly with the ...
... standard language, in its rather unequal relationship with the non-standard varieties current in the community, and in its competition for status with other more dignified languages like Latin, Greek and Italian. A remarkable early ...