Sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French / edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong, Françoise Gadet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beeching, Kate.

Armstrong, Nigel (Nigel Robert)

Gadet, Françoise.

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; 26.

Impact, studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Social aspects--France.

French language.

French language--Social aspects--Foreign countries.

French language--Variation.

Sociolinguistics.

French language--Social aspects.

Foreign countries.

France.

Physical Description:

xi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Contents:

Phonological variation and leveling. Introduction / Nigel Armstrong

Perception and production in French dialect leveling / Nigel Armstrong and Zoë Boughton

The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories : some evidence from word-final consonant devoicing in French spoken in Belgium / Philippe Hambye

Prosodic style-shifting as audience design : real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French / Jessica Sertling Miller

The immigrant factor in phonological leveling / Tim Pooley

A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French / Elissa Pustka

The law of position revisited : the case of mid-vowels in Briançon French / Anne Violin-Wigent

Stylistic and syntactic variation. Introduction / Françoise Gadet

Variation in first and second language French : the case of parce que / Mireille Bilger and Henry Tyne

French preadolescents' perceptions of stylistic variation : a contrastive sociolinguistic study / Laurence Buson

Sociolinguistic variation in African French : the Ivorian relative clause / Anne Moseng Knutsen

Register variation in the non-standard use of non-finite forms / Nathalie Rossi-Gensane

Lexical variation and semantic change. Introduction / Kate Beeching and Richard Waltereit

Discourse markers and regional variation in French : a lexico-semantic approach / Gaétane Dostie

Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French / Kate Beeching

From 'luck' to 'wealth' : the stylistic (re)distribution of fortuné in modern French / Bruno Courbon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027218650

902721865X

OCLC:

401164398