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Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France : methodology and case studies / Wendy Ayres-Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French language--Variation.
- French language.
- French language--Middle French, 1300-1600--History.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides a systematic study of sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a range of case studies, Wendy Ayres-Bennett makes available data about linguistic variation in this period, showing the wealth and variety of language usage at a time that is considered to be the most 'standardising' in the history of French. Variation is analysed in terms of the speaker's 'pre-verbal constitution' - such as gender, age and socio-economic status - or by the medium, register or genre used. As well as examining linguistic variation itself, the book also considers the fundamental methodological issues that are central to all socio-historical linguistic accounts and, more importantly, addresses the question of what the appropriate sources are for linguists taking a socio-historical approach. In each chapter, the case studies present a range of phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical issues, which pose different methodological questions for sociolinguists and historical linguists alike.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction : methodological issues
- 2. Spoken and written French
- 3. Social and stylistic variation
- 4. Women's language
- 5. Age, variation and change
- 6. Conclusion
- App. Corpora of metalinguistic texts.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-15960-1
- 1-280-70297-4
- 0-511-23125-3
- 0-511-23048-6
- 0-511-22886-4
- 0-511-31653-4
- 0-511-48663-4
- 0-511-22970-4
- OCLC:
- 252529943
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