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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... sixteenth-century France A view of social stratification in seventeenth-century France 6a, 6b The decline of the patois 7 8 9 10 11 12 Population growth in France The urban and rural population in France A model of stylistic variation A ...
... centuries is severely limited by the nature of the surviving data, but this does not justify the assumption all too ... sixteenth century) was quite evidently to confer historical legitimacy upon the newly forming standard language, in ...
... century to the imposed stability of the seventeenth; the sixteenth-century Renaissance was one of great aesthetic activity; the date of 1789 is purely political. It is highly likely that this periodisation owes more to political and ...
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