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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... particular gratitude to James Milroy, John Charles Smith and Glanville Price, who made many wise suggestions for improving various parts of the text. Finally, I must thank several generations of students in Aberdeen and Newcastle who ...
... particular series of sociocultural developments which occurred at a particular stage in European history. In no European society did they take deeper root than in France, and their mark is to be seen in many aspects of French culture ...
... particular 'accents' and styles he or she encounters. However, when it comes to describing these different language varieties the terminology (or metalanguage) at his/her disposal is usually heavily laden with valuejudgements derived ...
... , that linguistic historians should have sought to correlate events in the external history of the French language with the particular sequence of events which they considered to be milestones in the political, social and literary.
... particular metaphors. Sometimes these are architectural: the language is viewed as a castle which has its rough foundations laid in the ninth century, becomes a feudal fortress in the thirteenth, a Renaissance château in the sixteenth ...
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