Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French
Editors
Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and Canada are considered, mainly with respect to phonological features but also focusing on syntactic and lexical evolutions (the relative clause in Ivorian French and discourse markers in Canadian French). The acquisition of stylistic features of French figures in chapters on both first and second language learners and variation across different genres is addressed with respect to non-standard non-finite forms. Finally, a section on semantic change traces the way that interactional and other socio-historical factors affect word meaning. The volume will appeal to (socio-)linguists with an interest in contemporary French as well as to advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students of French and specialists in the field.
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionKate Beeching | pp. vii–xii
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Section I. Phonological variation and leveling
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IntroductionNigel Armstrong | pp. 3–8
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Perception and production in French dialect levelingNigel Armstrong and Zoë Boughton | pp. 9–24
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The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories: Some evidence from word-final consonant devoicing in French spoken in BelgiumPhilippe Hambye | pp. 25–42
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Prosodic style-shifting as audience design: Real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss FrenchJessica Sertling Miller | pp. 43–62
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The immigrant factor in phonological levelingTim Pooley | pp. 63–76
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A prototype-theoretic model of Southern FrenchElissa Pustka | pp. 77–94
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The law of position revisited: The case of mid-vowels in Briançon FrenchAnne Violin-Wigent | pp. 95–112
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Section II. Stylistic and syntactic variation
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IntroductionFrançoise Gadet | pp. 115–120
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Variation in first and second language French: The case of parce queMireille Bilger and Henry Tyne | pp. 121–140
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French preadolescents’ perceptions of stylistic variation: A contrastive sociolinguistic studyLaurence Buson | pp. 141–158
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Sociolinguistic variation in African French: The Ivorian relative clauseAnne Moseng Knutsen | pp. 159–176
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Register variation in the non-standard use of non-finite formsNathalie Rossi-Gensane | pp. 177–192
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Section III. Lexical variation and semantic change
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IntroductionKate Beeching and Richard Waltereit | pp. 195–199
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Discourse markers and regional variation in French: A lexico-semantic approachGaétane Dostie | pp. 201–214
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Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken FrenchKate Beeching | pp. 215–230
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From ‘luck’ to ‘wealth’: The stylistic (re)distribution of fortuné in Modern FrenchBruno Courbon | pp. 231–252
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Index | pp. 253–258
“This volume offers a most valuable mise au point on the variability of contemporary French, synthesising French and Anglo-American methods and perceptions in a highly creative way. It deserves a conspicuous place on postgraduate and even some undergraduate bibliographies, not just in French, but in general sociolinguistics too.”
Anthony Lodge, University of St. Andrews
“An interesting and diverse collection of articles. This will offset the commonly heard claim that no one does quantitative sociolinguistics in France.”
Noami Nagy, Universisty of Toronto
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General