Sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French
By: edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong, Françoise Gadet.
Contributors: Beeching, Kate.; Armstrong, Nigel.; Gadet, Françoise.
Series: Impact, studies in language and society -- v. 26; Impact, studies in language and society -- 26.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9789027218650
Subjects: French language -- Social aspects -- France; French language -- Social aspects -- Foreign countries; French language -- Variation; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Phonological variation and leveling. Introduction / Nigel Armstrong; title: Perception and production in French dialect leveling / Nigel Armstrong and Zoë Boughton; title: The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories : some evidence from word-final consonant devoicing in French spoken in Belgium / Philippe Hambye; title: Prosodic style-shifting as audience design : real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French / Jessica Sertling Miller; title: The immigrant factor in phonological leveling / Tim Pooley; title: A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French / Elissa Pustka; title: The law of position revisited : the case of mid-vowels in Briançon French / Anne Violin-Wigent; title: Stylistic and syntactic variation. Introduction / Françoise Gadet; title: Variation in first and second language French : the case of parce que / Mireille Bilger and Henry Tyne; title: French preadolescents' perceptions of stylistic variation : a contrastive sociolinguistic study / Laurence Buson; title: Sociolinguistic variation in African French : the Ivorian relative clause / Anne Moseng Knutsen; title: Register variation in the non-standard use of non-finite forms / Nathalie Rossi-Gensane; title: Lexical variation and semantic change. Introduction / Kate Beeching and Richard Waltereit; title: Discourse markers and regional variation in French : a lexico-semantic approach / Gaétane Dostie; title: Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French / Kate Beeching; title: From 'luck' to 'wealth' : the stylistic (re)distribution of fortuné in modern French / Bruno Courbon.