Social and Linguistic Change in European French

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ISBN: 9780230219502 | 0230219500
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Copyright: 9/15/2010

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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.

List of Tables	p. x
List of Maps	p. xvii
The Links Between Social and Linguistic Change	p. 1
The research themes studied in this book	p. 1
Levelling	p. 4
Structure of the book	p. 7
Standardisation and Language Change in France, Belgium and Switzerland	p. 8
Linguistic and social levelling	p. 8
The sociolinguistic situations of western Europe	p. 8
The dominance of a hypercephalic capital	p. 12
Describing the centre	p. 15
Language and nation	p. 20
Belgium	p. 26
Switzerland	p. 31
The francophone area in a western European perspective	p. 35
Shift and maintenance of minority autochtonous varieties	p. 36
The post-industrial and post-diaglossic era	p. 39
Historical situations and social changes in the second half of the 20th century	p. 40
Social Levelling: Substantive Transformations, Changing Social Practices and Symbolic Representations	p. 44
Introduction	p. 44
The emergence of the post-industrial economy	p. 46
Changes in occupational structure	p. 50
Urbanisation	p. 59
Changing gender roles	p. 70
Migration	p. 74
Internationalisation	p. 78
Media and popular culture	p. 80
(i)Symbolic changes and the late 20th-century zeitgeist: evolving social and national identities	p. 84
(ii)Symbolic changes and the late 20th-century zeitgeist: evolving social practices and representations in the everyday	p. 88
Concluding remarks	p. 96
Accents and Levelling in France, Belgium and Switzerland	p. 100
Linguistic levelling in the light of social levelling	p. 100
The reference pronunciation of France and the ideology of the Standard	p. 101
Attempting to define Reference Franch	p. 105
Stylistic variation: omission or insertion phenomena?	p. 111
Variation in the liquid consonants /1/ and /r/	p. 112
Variable liaison	p. 114
Mute-e	p. 115
The education system and the acquisition of Standard French in France	p. 120
Is there a southern (Provençal) regional standard?	p. 123
The emergence of alternative prestigious pronunciations in Francophonie Nord: the example of Quebec	p. 125
Prestigious pronunciations in Belgium	p. 126
Prestigious pronunciations in Suisse romande	p. 138
The Levelling of Regional Varieties in France	p. 150
The problematic nature of identifying regional accents in France	p. 150
The relation between regional, social and stylistic variation	p. 153
Regional variation in middle-class Oïl usage in the early to mid-20th century	p. 158
Marked regional varieties in the early to mid-20th century	p. 161
Vernacular Parisian as a regional variety	p. 165
Lille and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais	p. 169
Brittany and Normandy	p. 175
Eastern regions of France	p. 180
The northern Oc region and southward spread of supralocal French	p. 183
Overview of non-southern French	p. 185
Southern France (i) the traditional situation	p. 186
Southern France (ii) the results of more recent studies	p. 193
Summary of the situation in southern France	p. 202
Regional Vernacular Varieties and Language Levelling in Belgium and Switzerland	p. 205
Overview	p. 205
Brussels vernacular	p. 205
Regional varieties in Wallonia-substrate and perceptions	p. 211
Descriptions in the 1970s and 1980s	p. 214
Variationist studies	p. 217
The Borinage (Thiam, 1995)	p. 218
Mons (Moreau and Bauvois, 1998; Bauvois, 2001, 2002a, 2002b)	p. 222
Brussels, Gembloux, Liège and Tournai (Hambye, 2005)	p. 227
The findings of perceptual studies and summary of the Belgian situation	p. 235
The Francoprovencal substrate in Suisse romande	p. 236
Regional varieties (Geneva, Neuchâtel, Valais)	p. 237
The Vaud: behaviour and perceptions	p. 240
More recent perceptions of marked varieties in the Vaud (Singy, 1996)	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 246
Social Factors: Bringing Together Class, Gender, Migration, Ideology and Language	p. 249
Overview of the chapter	p. 249
Social class	p. 249
Gender	p. 253
Historical perspectives on the sociolinguistic consequences of migration	p. 260
Urban youth vernaculars	p. 263
Concluding remarks	p. 273
References	p. 277
Index	p. 297
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