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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... sociolinguists. Although French is one of the most highly standardised of the world's languages, the author invites us ... sociolinguistic framework to provide a broad overview of the problem of language standardisation. R. Anthony Lodge ...
... sociolinguistic history of the language (the developing relationship between French and the population which uses it) – though the uncovering of a close relationship between language variation and language change has meant that the ...
... of 1789 is purely political. It is highly likely that this periodisation owes more to political and literary history and to French nationalist 'mythology' than to the reality of linguistic or sociolinguistic development.
... sociolinguistic development of French parallels with the historical development of other languages. A case in point is provided by the central problem of language standardisation. Traditional histories carefully chart the stages whereby ...
... sociolinguists, and it may appear to some that they are so well known and basic that they hardly warrant the space devoted to them. However, we will defend our approach on the grounds that sociolinguistic thinking on these matters ...
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