Social and linguistic change in French
Subtitle: a trans-national perspective
By: Nigel Armstrong and Tim Pooley.
Contributors: Pooley, Timothy, 1949-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780230219502
Subjects: French language -- Social aspects -- Foreign countries; French language -- Social aspects -- France; French language -- Variation; Sociolinguistics
Description: "Looking at language variation in French using linguistic data that has emerged in recent years from France, Belgium and Switzerland, and comparing it to other European countries, this comparative study sets out to track how language changes have followed social and attitudinal developments, giving it a particular sociolinguistic slant"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Sociolinguistic Variation and Change; title: Social Levelling; title: Linguistic Variation and Change in French; title: Resistance to Homognisation in French-speaking Europe; title: Caste Studies showing counter-examples to levelling in French; title: Variation and Social Factors; title: Synthetic Overview of Variation and Change in French in a Trans-national Perspective; title: Index.