Sylvie Dubois
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sylvie Dubois plays a role.
Articles
2003 Letter-writing in French Louisiana: Interpreting variable spelling conventions, 1685–1840 Written Language & Literacy 6:1, pp. 31–70 | Miscellaneous
This article reports a sociolinguistic analysis of the French spelling system in newly discovered, authentic personal letters written by literate settlers living in Louisiana during the 18th and 19th centuries. After showing that French and non-French vernaculars were very much alive among the… read more
1998 From Accent to Marker in Cajun English: A Study of Dialect Formation in Progress English World-Wide 19:2, pp. 161–188 | Article
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been described as an accented variety of English, the result of interference from French. In order to investigate this proposition, we present a variationist study of four features of Cajun English: 1) the interdental fricatives /th,… read more
1997 Discourse enumerators and Schegloff’s denominator Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 153–182 | Article