Publications

Publication details [#6245]

Lindenfeld, Jacqueline. 1969. The social conditioning of syntactic variation in French. American Anthropologist 71 (5) : 890–898.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | context dependence | event | social context | syntactic variability

Language as a subject

French

Annotation

An attempt to correlate nonlinguistic and linguistic events in order to make explicit some of the rules by which members of a given society can intuitively categorize speakers and speech situations within that society. Syntactic variation in French is shown to be conditioned by both sociological and contextual factors.

Reprints

Fishman, Joshua A. 1972. In Fishman, Joshua A., ed. Advances in the sociology of language 2: Selected studies and applications. Mouton. pp. 77–90.