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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beeching, Kate.

Armstrong, Nigel.

Gadet, Françoise.

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; 26.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Social aspects--France.

French language.

French language--Social aspects--Foreign countries.

French language--Variation.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

xi, 257 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter examines the semantic development of fortuné in Modern French, charting its sociostylistic variation from the 18th to the 21st century. It focuses particularly on the increasing use of fortuné in its current sense of 'rich/wealthy', and the negative reception of this new sense in most lexicographical works up until the 20th century. The study aims to show how this semantic innovation produced a lexical stylistic division, opposing a traditional usage (considered standard) to a 'neological' one (considered non-standard). Having undergone a shift of meaning from 'lucky/happy' to 'wealthy', fortuné is currently most commonly understood as a euphemism for 'rich'.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612444999

9781282444997

1282444999

9789027288998

9027288992

OCLC:

592756336