Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French
Edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.
Nigel Armstrong
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nigel Armstrong plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A comparative approach
Nigel Armstrong
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 8] 2001. x, 278 pp.
Subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2009 Introduction Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet (eds.), pp. 3–8 | Article
2009 Perception and production in French dialect leveling Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet (eds.), pp. 9–24 | Article
In the first part of this chapter we provide a rigorous definition of what might be meant by the proposition that the supralocal or dominant variety of the French of France is ‘leveled’. We consider firstly some evidence that supports the notion of leveling as the diminution of regional features,… read more