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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... variability and the wide gulf that has now developed between French used for formal purposes and that used in everyday speech and suggests that standardisation is an ongoing rather than a finite process. Concentrating on the ordinary ...
... variability. Intermediary between the patois and the langue française come regional accents; these involve deviations in pronunciation from the Parisian norm and are commonly associated with the various français régionaux (regional ...
... variability of their data. If general statements are to be made about linguistic evolution, then some degree of idealisation is inevitable. However, traditional histories have tended to evacuate too many variable elements from the data ...
... variability and change, and the problem of language standardisation. LANGUAGE VARIATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE Sociolinguists have come to view language variation in a totally different way from the layperson. They regard the idea of the ...
... variability. Just as varieties within a language commonly merge into one another without natural breaks, so delimitations between languages are not always easy to establish on linguistic grounds. How are we to decide whether such and ...